Quotes About Resilience

As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. So were born cycles of abuse.

Black Knight: I'm impressed. You even mended the t-shirt. Faiza: Mate, you're with the NHS now.

To Londoners, bombs and riots were just an extreme form of weather.

Goodness deliberately chooses to do the right thing and firmly resists what is wrong. Merely avoiding bad things doesn't make women good.

many people will only change due to desperation

Surviving abuse, as a child or an adult, often means that you have to play by your abuser's rules—rules that set you up to behave like a fearful, passive person long after you have escaped the abuse.

You no longer have to deny your own needs and opinions to earn the love and approval of others. You don't ever have to again accept physical abuse, manipulation, sexual or financial exploitation, or keep unwanted secrets because you have no other choice. You have survived

fear and shame don't own him.

Roman poet Ovid wrote: "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

It really hurts when your friends (particularly Christian friends) unfairly criticize your efforts to become a healthier, more Christlike woman. But don't let your hurt stop your journey. Keep moving toward your destination.

God loves a spirited woman who does more than sit with her hands folded as the world crumbles.

who was a lot more than just the sum of their weaknesses.

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one. The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? Bertolt Brecht, On Violence

There's plenty about my life I can't change. Can't bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can't make the world loving and kind. Can't change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot -- I can change that. Can change it big. Better to put my time into that than moaning about the other all day.

she could not see how much there was to live for, that she was young and that one could build anew upon the ashes of failure

God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.

New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.

Here, as so often, the best defense is a good offense. If you can develop technology that's simply too hard for competitors to duplicate, you don't need to rely on other defenses. Start by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

It's not when people notice you're there that they pay attention; it's when they notice you're still there.

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.

It's a prime example of a zombie idea—an idea that should have been killed by evidence, but refuses to die.