Quotes About Resilience

some children are neglected in both domains, emotionally and materially. No matter where they turn, they encounter deprivation. These children usually just give up and learn to expect nothing (the Surrender coping style).

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.

It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

The window was still open," Mr Lisbon said. "I don't think we'd ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she'd go on jumping out of it forever.

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, Buffeted but not broken.

The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them...People don't save other people. People save themselves.

Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.

Just when she'd got her head on straight, her body started falling apart.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel has already changed past understanding.

We just want to live. If anyone would let us.

Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes

He was like a statue being chiseled away from the inside, hollowed out. As more and more of his thoughts gave him pain, Milton had increasingly avoided them. Instead he concentrated on the few that made him feel better, the bromides about everything working out. Milton, quite simply, had ceased to think things through.

Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.

By cutting off my hair I was punishing myself for loving someone so much. I was trying to be stronger.

I was young, and, despite dread, full of animal spirits; it was impossible for me to take a dark view too long.

La depresión no es algo de lo que uno se quita. No puedes desengancharte de la depresión. Depresión es como un moretón que nunca se te quita. Un moretón en la mente. Tienes que tener mucho cuidado de no tocarte donde duele. Pero está siempre ahí

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all the healing was done by those of us without wounds.