Quotes About Resilience

That when you're surrounded by people you love, you have the strength to face anything

I see the fragmented beauty of grace in their lives despite continued struggles. Beautiful mosaics formed by broken pieces.

What if Rochella were taken from you right now? Let's say she was killed or kidnapped or separated from you by a war. How would you feel about her then? You'd fight for her. You'd miss her. You'd remember the million perfect moments you've had together.

We are who are, Memory Thibodeaux," he said. "Because of who we've been.

But it seems that in the end all that matters is finding a way to survive the grief and trusting in the goodness of life beyond the pain.

Love wasn't all that touched their lives on this planet, but it made everything else endurable.

Honey, anything can be hard - having a husband gone all the time, or underfoot all the time, or no husband, or … whatever. The answer is to build a life around those things.

voler vivere e morire in mezzo agli uomini é segno di grave debolezza

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Maybe the important thing is to keep trying, no matter how hard it feels.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

You never know what you're going to get with a pinball game," John said. "It's a lot like life. You can't control it, so you have to just roll with it and do the best you can. And if you do well enough, sometimes you get a bonus play.

There's life after divorce, Sarah,' my father proclaimed, not that he'd ever been divorced.

You have to stop looking for someone else to save you. Only you can do that for yourself.

Over a decade since her heart was not just broken but crushed, so why can't she get over it? Ben doesn't understand; she knows he's been in love before and got hurt, but he was able to let go of his pain and move forward. Why can't I?

You've rowed again?' I can hear the disapproval in her voice. 'Em … you can't go on like this.

Some wounds are invisible. It doesn't mean they're not real.

Maybe faith was having the humility to scream at God and the audacity to get up off the floor.

Who do you call when your husband dies and you're twenty-four years old, alone in Afghanistan? Who do you call when the only voice you want to hear no longer exists?

Faith isn't really faith until it's beat up and put through a fire. When you're crushed, you feel like you're dying. But you're actually coming to life. When you're broken, that's when the best of you comes out.

Ik ben niet bevreesd, noch voor de ouderdom noch voor de dood, maar berusting is me schrikbeeld. Nooit zou ik aan de oevers waar braafheid en gezapigheid wonen, willen aanleggen. Ik ben nu vijfentachtig, ik schrijf nog steeds en ik zou nog tot liefhebben in staat zijn.

Call me the stereotype, then, but what you don't know is that there's more to me than meets the eye. I can be reasonable-girl. I can be reliable-girl. I can be contented-girl, even. I refuse to fit into any set category, so don't even try to stick a label on me because it'll never fully describe who I am. You

There is a word that shrinks love using. It is 'resilient'. The idea seems to be that some people, better people, have thick outer shells and don't let things bother them. Don't let the voices in.

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life. Whatever suffering he was now to meet was a long way from what the girl at his side had already endured, and might yet surpass.