Quotes About Resilience

And yet here she was. There was nothing else to do, nowhere else to turn. "Goddamn it," she said, and turned

They should move gingerly through their days, as if they had spinal cord injuries.

It was so easy to forget how bad things were. Like winter. Like the flu. Like childbirth.

Apparently, the moment your ovaries noticed you were worried about becoming pregnant, they refused to cooperate. Oh well, if you're going to get all huffy about it, we'll just close down.

Finally, little by little, the vise around her chest loosened its grip enough for her to breathe again. It never went away completely. She'd accepted that a long time ago. She'd die with the clamp of grief still wrapped around her chest. She didn't want it to go away. That would be like Janie had never existed.

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh…

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

I run after her, not really giving chase. I'm running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

What are you doing?" he asked. "If it's anything like what I just came through, it's impossible." That set me. "Impossible?" This was the whole point of all the work and energy I'd put into the past five years. Everything aimed toward one thing: Iditarod. I lifted the snow hook. "Okay, gang. Let's go.

I cried all the way to the bank [response to negative reviews].

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

The destruction of the enemy's armed forces is but a means--and not necessarily an inevitable or infallible one--to the attainment of the real objective. The object of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks but to destroy his will.

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.

You need to have a kind of home port where you put down anchor when the hurricane comes; you must stay connected to your roots. That helps you to have humility and an understanding of your true self.

But no one came. My father was safe, and his family was together in a free land. We'd left virtually everything we had behind—our home, furniture, clothes, and possessions. Our lifelong friends, too. We'd left behind the fields we'd lovingly tilled, the fig and cherry trees that I cherished, and the farm animals that were once so important to us. My father had nothing to show for the business that he'd worked so hard to establish and grow.

Loving parental care has unmatched transformational powers in restoring the child's developmental momentum in risk situations.

Toddlers who don't learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give-and-take with other people's needs. They can become self-centered, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with.

I seen nights full of pain, days of the same.

You keep the sunshine, save me the rain.

And if you come up from under that water and theres fresh air, just breathe baby, Gods got a blessin to spare. I know the process is so much stress but its the progress that feels the best. I came from the projects straight to success and youre next, just try, they cant steal your pride, its inside. Then find it and keep on grindin cause in every dark cloud theres a silver linin. I know.

No I didnt say that Im flawless, but I damn sure dont tarnish.