Quotes About Resilience

Getting hurt physically, failing, persevering, and succeeding (despite overwhelming odds) are key factors in a male's growth toward manhood.

Oh Marlboro Man, where art thou? Your comeback won't be a minute too soon!

There was a lot more that I wanted to tell her, like that everything in this beautiful treasure house of a world breaks, and sometimes things break so bad all you can do is hope to get your heart to stop bleeding long enough for you to sift through the ashes so you can try to gain some slight understanding. But some things that break real bad can be mended if you're lucky enough to have someone on your side with a ton of glue who won't give up."--Vicki Grove, Everything Breaks

This sort of thing happens with leopards, which is why Dr. MacElroy has big cats in the first place. It started with Rocky, a lion who was brought to him with virtually every bone in his body broken—"pathological fractures caused by rickets." There was a bobcat with a similar story, and Cinder's mother was another. Dr. MacElroy fixes them up, and that's how they become his pets.

I haven't made time for pity or blame or even resentment. All of those things take too much energy. I just don't have it to spare.

God's got a plan, and I'm going to trust Him to execute it. Will it be easy? Not for either of us. But we can handle the tough stuff. We've trained for it our whole lives.

There should be universal rules about this," she told her reflection. "When a woman is body slammed, she can only take so much without breaking under the pressure." Gathering a full head of steam, she frowned and jabbed her finger in the air. "Life should go easy on you then." That would be humane. Civil. "And if bad things have to happen, there should be warning signs so there's time to brace and prepare for them.

There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.

There's something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. There's also something comforting in thinking that if they made it this far, relatively unscathed, then maybe you didn't turn out half bad either.

I love the cancer spoon!

That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna

Even now...she [Kit] still had a need to believe that most people, that most of life, was good. That belief was a sort of strength, too.

Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first.

you've been rooked. You know,you got the dust off. Killed. Murdered. Clipped. It's a rough deal, but you've had some good times, right?

She needed facts. Facts were bricks. Maybe she could build herself a wall with them, too, one tall and wide and strong enough to keep her alive when he was gone.

Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you're upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.

Memories are stronger than we think.

life lingers through hurdles,but it actually trains you to the best.

For so many people, the stronger the evidence of failed strategies, the deeper they cling to their ways.

My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.

There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

Remember when you first learned how to swim? In the beginning you struggled mightily to keep your head above water. But then, one day, something amazing happened: You gave up fighting to stay afloat. And when you did, you rose to the surface and floated effortlessly.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms -- to chose one's attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.