Quotes About Resilience

If we were perfect, the light he shines on us would just bounce right off. But the wrinkles, they catch the light. And the cracks, that's how the light gets inside us.

I'm strong," the woman replied. "I can take this." Henry said, "You have always been strong, Leah, but a sweat is not about enduring. It is about yielding.

I comfort myself with something Henry once told me. He said we all stumble in the dark, but that's why the Great Mystery gave us voices, so that we can call out, seeking others in the dark. And we were given hands so that we can reach out to help one another. Alone, the darkness swallows us. But together, we help each other through. So, when things seem bleakest, I tell myself to soldier on. I try to remind myself to call out. I do my best to be ready to offer a hand.

fear is fear if you allow it to rule you it doesn't matter of what you are afraid of" - Maiev Shadowsong

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.

Make friends, because come a hurricane, you're going to need them

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you.

It turns out, you can get used to almost anything. What one day seems a shocking, unbearable outrage over time comes to seem ordinary, unremarkable.

Don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. The hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

The girl was about to cry, which reminded me of the grown woman I had just left on the sidewalk also near tears. Jesus, there was no escaping them.

Do not regret the passing of the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile.

Do not regret the passing if the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile.

Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.

It's funny what kind of hell you can get used to.

I expect to lose. I always do. And life seems eager to exceed my expectations.

It's not easy, that's all I can tell you. Living your own life is hard. It's easier just going along, doing what they tell you to do.

We'll need more guns." "And some explosives." "And Advil." "Those bastards won't know what hit them once we get the Advil.

choke him. They filled him with their trial and

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch And I will be heard.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

But I'd come to a time when I couldn't deal with these broken things anymore. There were too many of them. I couldn't fix them. I didn't have the strength. I couldn't hold them in my mind. I didn't even want to know about them.

The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.