Quotes About Resilience

In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a crowbar to a cat, though if I had a choice, I would prefer an angry cat, which I have found to be more effective than a crowbar. Although weaponless, I left the house by the back door, with two chocolate-pumpkin cookies. It's a tough world out there, and a man has to armor himself against it however he can. ~Odd Thomas

You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

It's only life. We all get through it.

Time doesn't, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.--Odd Thomas

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...

After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.

We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Storytelling can heal broken hearts and damaged minds.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

One can either despair and perish or be cheerful and persevere.

When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.

Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.

In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was a wicked pervert who would cut off my peepee with a pair of scissors...if I didn't stop chattering about him, he would be certain to put me on his list and look me up. Christmas was never the same after that, but at least I still have my peepee.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk, Milo said, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.