Quotes About Resilience

We refuse to let the past wreck our today. That's why we're the team that we are.

No one gets through life unscathed.

I feel greatful, though, that Sabin was my home base tonight. He let me come back to him as often as I needed to ground myself. When the noise was too much or the social interaction felt overwhelming, he remained my rock.

You will be his pillar of strength!" Julie prompted. "That is a vile cliché, and I will not say that.

I am still trying to glue together the broken pieces of this person I love. He manages his tortured side with remarkable skill, but even Chris, with his endless supply of strength and clarity, could not survive all that he did without scars.

Everything will be okay. Good things last, and the bad things will fade away. So, go find your good.

Our lives and the love we share are the saving graces of that night.

Your choice comes from strength, not from dependence. - Justin

We eat. We sleep. We keep going.

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you strong, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those.

Life is not fair, but it is what we have to deal with. And we are going to deal with it so that we can live. No, so that we can thrive.

You can't drown when you know how to float." Chris says nothing for a few minutes. "Maybe. But the water is pretty calm today. There could always be a storm." He rubs my shoulders. He breathes against me. He waits. "It's hard to float in a storm.

This is all sorts of fucked up." "I know, baby. I know. But the best kind of fucked up.

Americans can face the world with open arms, Marianne had once said, because the world hasn't yet come to knock it down.

There is so much gray between the black and the white and this is where most of us live, trying, but so often failing, to bend towards the light.

Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call breaking is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.