Quotes About Resilience

It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?' 'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.

I've made it this far without crying a single tear and I'd sure hate to break down here.

My mother tells me all the time that if you don't trouble trouble, then trouble won't trouble you.

I is for me. I cannot believe how much I have fucked up in love. At least, physically. I don't believe I have mentally. For some weird reason, all of my tiny horrors have been liveable. I have not died. In fact, life has become better. Through age and experience there has come realisation: life is worth living.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.

I must fight against the regret that would see me defeated. I cannot change what has happened, but it needn't separate me from a happy future.

Carter once told me that we shouldn't fear putting the past behind us. He said that God is about doing new things—creating beauty out of the ashes of despair and defeat.

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart.

Faith has to be grown. It doesn't just blossom overnight. Life gives you all sorts of ups and downs, and usually those issues are small enough that your faith gets tested and stretched and hopefully produces even more faith.

child to lose her mother and brother, as you

day. You lost your man and

William needs a good woman in his life. The war was hard on him. He had no heart for it.

Tracie Peterson

I despise you. You are exactly the kind of man God warns against. Evil and vindictive, scheming and deceiving." "Be that as it may," Lockhart said, tracing her cheek with his finger, "you will marry me. Now I suggest you gather your things and then allow me to escort you to get the wagon. We will find the nearest preacher and then we'll leave immediately. You will take your brother and sister and settle into my house.

bottoming out for cotton. But these things do tend to

So tell me more about Miss Hannah. Is she your gal?" Tyler asked. "Hardly. She's no one's gal that I can see. She's her own woman through and through." Tyler laughed. "I haven't seen anyone so pretty since leavin' to join up.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

Often times we reach out to people who would rather not be reached. We love people who reject our love and would just as soon spit in our face, but Jesus asks us to go on loving--go on reaching. It's easy to love someone when they love us, but so much harder to love when we are treated poorly by that person.

We all have scars. Some are visible and others aren't, but they are there all the same. Your scar makes you no less worthy.

God is bigger than our pain and sorrows. He's bigger than our guilt. He is able to take anything we give Him and turn it around for good.

Those of us who dream about doing what hasn't been done are bound to ruffle feathers. Well, let 'em ruffle

The brutality of war could damage even the best of men.