Quotes About Resilience

It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where ... where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which ... is in its own way a disappointment.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

HANNAH: It can be very hard to accept how disappointing life is, Harper, because that's what it is, and you have to accept it. With faith and time and hard work you reach a point where . . . where the disappointment doesn't hurt as much, and then it gets easy to live with. Quite easy. Which . . . is in its own way a disappointment. But.      There.

Nothing's lost forever.

HARPER: I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you.

ROY (Fierce): I hurt. BELIZE: I'll get you a painkiller. ROY: Will it knock me out? BELIZE: I sure hope so. ROY: Then shove it. Pain's . . . nothing, pain's life. BELIZE: Sing it, baby.

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.

Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

There are always distractions if you allow them.

Andujar, Joaquin, 183 Anheuser-Busch, 181–82 Animal Rescue

Let those others sing of your skill and courage you keep it still within.

remembering what she said about love trying to live with what I can't rise above.

With the remaining 80 pesos, a Cuban has to pay around 15 pesos for the electric bill, 6 pesos for cooking gas, 5 pesos for water and sewer, and maybe 15–20 pesos if he or she is still paying for an apartment (although most people have finished paying their installments and own their dwellings). With

One young woman was convinced it's part of the plan: by keeping everyone poor no one has time to organize to topple the system; they have to devote all their time and energy to the pursuit of the next meal.

Gadzooks! We've jumped out of the frying pan and into another frying pan!

Let's get you back to the kitchen and put some butter on those wounds.

Life doesn't give a fuck who's living it.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

Dont feel too bad, Harry. People break-up everyday, its not the end of the world..

Failure is not fatal victory is not success.