Quotes About Resilience

A phrase the doctor used had reassured Mom—"treatable but not curable.

What does one say to someone who has just been diagnosed with such a dire illness?

A Thousand Splendid Suns, the new book by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.

Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

The Bite of the Mango,

That's the point, Will. You can't control the beatings. But maybe you can have some control over your happiness.

That's the point, Will. You can't control the beatings. But maybe you can have some control over your happiness. As long as he can, well then, he still has something worth living for. And when he's no longer able, he knows he's done all he can.

It's three hours, and I know I probably won't feel up for it, but if I'm going to feel rotten, I'd rather feel rotten watching something wonderful than just sitting in the living room, looking at the wall.

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." OBAMA

Her new mantra was a piece of wisdom given to her by a friend of my sister who specialized in palliative care: "Make Plans and Cancel Them.

Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.

Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française

Ishmael Beah's memoir of his life as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone.

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Identifying and accepting our flaws, and then changing who we are, means breaking down the very structure of our reality before rebuilding it in a new and improved form. This is not easy. It's painful and disturbing. We'll often fight with all we have to resist this kind of profound change. This is why we call those who manage it 'heroes'.

Smile, but keep your powder dry.

he objected to work, but that the world being the harsh place it is he had to suffer his lot like the rest of humanity.

No escape--like life itself.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on

Om integer te zijn en alleen te kunnen wezen, moet je iets ontdekken dat het de moeite waard maakt ervoor te lijden.