Quotes About Resilience

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

Being a bitch is easy. It's finding the alternative that's hard.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

I have always been aware of how I break. I know what kind of situations will break me. I know what kind of people will do it. I know how much it will hurt.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing

People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding. But if that's true, why do they always find us?