Quotes About Resilience

She's holding it together, too, and I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, because I might not be able to do it or her. I can tell she's also trying not to look back, but she does it - she looks over her shoulder - and the tears won't leave her eyes.

wenn etwas zerbricht, dann ist es nicht das zerbrechen, was verhindert, dass sich alles wieder fügt. es liegt daran, dass ein stück verloren gegangen ist, und sei es auch noch so winzig - die beiden verbliebenen stücke passen einfach nicht mehr zueinander, egal was man versucht. die gesamte struktur hat sich verändert.

Even if I didn't believe I was the kind of person who could stand up to the people who hated me, I wanted to be the kind of person who would.

Good doesn't triumph because anybody tells it to. It triumphs when we push it and carry it and shout it and embrace it until it triumphs.

They beat the shit out of me," he told people, soon after. "But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.

Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters.

I am not sure I have the strength to resist this.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: we all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. The

I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

These are all the moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

It's natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is -Rhiannon

Pasamos tantos minutos, horas y días sin valorar la vida, sin sentirla demasiado, dejando que transcurra. Pero luego hay momentos como este en que la vivacidad de la vida es cristalina, palpable, innegable. Es la boya final a la que aferrarse cuando uno se está ahogando. Es la salvación.

The important thing to remember is that I am not alone. On days when it's hard, I remember am not alone. On days when it's easy, I remember I am not alone. That is what gets me through. Every day, it gets me through.

I'm about to give up, but I stop. I always try to last at least three minutes longer than giving up.

There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny.

The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard.

I've tried breaking things to feel better and found that it only feels better while things are breaking.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.

You have some great sadness about you. I don't know where it comes from or what form it takes but you must pass through it and leave it behind. --- Some things are simpler to say that to do.

Even the memory then, of what once was, will have grown dim in the minds of a generation who, for the whole of their lives, have known nothing but chaos and lawlessness.

After the conflagration, in the final years of humankind, the artists will, once again, be found painting the ceilings of the caves, and the middlemen will, as always, be trying to talk the honest hunters out of their kill. And it may or may not then be remembered, or indeed believed, there was once a time when the two groups were inextricably linked.

One can very agreeably ignore a rain by walking in it. In fact it is when one allows a rain to prevent one from walking in it that one is failing to ignore it. Surely by saying, dear me, I will get soaked through and through if I walk in this rain, for instance, one is in no way ignoring the rain.

Fray Luis de León, volviendo a su salón de clase en Salamanca tras cinco años preso por la Inquisición: Como estaba diciendo...