Quotes About Resilience

Buffeted but not broken.

It had to do with the way the mail wasn't delivered on time, and how potholes never got fixed, or the thievery at City Hall, or the race riots, or the 801 fires set around the city on Devil's night. The Lisbon girls became a symbol of what was wrong with the country, the pain it inflicted on even its most innocent citizens, and in order to make things better a parents' group donated a bench in the girls' memory to our school.

Certain "advanced" girls understood. Others, like me, thought: knife wound, bear attack.

She had the rectitude, Joe Hill Conley later said, of someone who had just come from weeping in the next room.

Before long, Commander Lovell—the man who had orbited the moon in a spacecraft that had done everything right—would learn what happens when a ship does everything wrong.

He was a boy composed of pieces just loosely held together, and the centrifugal spin of this latest terror could pull his loose bits apart. No magical belief in hummingbirds and glowworms could put him back together if that happened

The brain's gonna do what the brain's gonna do," I told them, "but you don't have to let it push you around.

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

So now I'm getting my gown made by an exclusive seamstress, and all thos anorexic whores on Michigan Avenue and Oak Street who made me feel like the Goodyear blimp can kiss the very fattest part of my ass.

I mean, six years ago my electricity's being cut off and my car's getting repossessed and I'm being evicted from my apartment, and now I'm all Yeah, havin' dinner with Rudy in the Hamptons, what of it?

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.

You don't have to be a writer, though, to know that making fun of yourself is a good way to deflect being made fun of. Like many people, I am hypercritical about myself so that I beat the haters to the punch. When I acknowledge my foibles first, no one else can use them against me. I've taken away everyone else's power to make me feel less about myself by doing it first.

During this crisis, I've discovered that I would thrive under house arrest. So there's that.

My concern is that one can only be outraged for so long before becoming numb. Hate is not an effective long-term solution.

There's nothing as unstoppable as a freight train full of fuck-yeah.

So often, we pretend we've made a decision, when what we've really done is signed up to try until it gets too uncomfortable.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.

I don't need "support." I need . . . I need . . . It occurs to me that I have no idea how that sentence might end.

He did not know how things were going to end, but he now knew that even in the midst of the darkest night, there was always a shard of light.

But the last of her strength had gone, and even if she had, in the last moments, managed to overcome her fear of the sea, she could no more move Jana any closer to the ocean than she could grow scales and breathe fire.

But by God's grace, I am what I am!

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.