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Quotes About Resilience

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
~ Colson Whitehead
Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.
~ Colson Whitehead
As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.
~ Colson Whitehead
The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
~ Colum McCann
Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.
~ Colum McCann
Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.
~ Colum McCann
My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.
~ Columba Bush
Accepting mistakes is the best way of not making them.
~ Unknown
Appreciate the good times because you know the bad are always coming.
~ Unknown
Don't stop along with those around you.
~ Unknown
Fight not, learn instead.
~ Unknown
Had I listened to the words of others, I'd have stayed nothing.
~ Unknown
I always take a sudden dislike to those who want everything simple and easy.
~ Unknown
My faith is stronger than ever, even when the church is not.
~ Unknown
My happiest moment is at the end of the day when I'm on the brink of collapse from exhaustion knowing I did the best I could with the energy I had and the most wonderful part is, I will shall do the same tomorrow.
~ Unknown
My struggles are my own and my creator is the only other who knows of them.
~ Unknown
No matter how horrible, painful and terrifying past events may be, they were meant to happen for a reason and from an origin beyond our comprehension.
~ Unknown
One with great successes has had equally great hardships.
~ Unknown
The days are long and the nights are cold, but in the end, I still have my dream.
~ Unknown
The hardest thing was to let Them and The Philosophy go from my complete control.
~ Unknown
There is only one thing one can do if one doesn't like the world they see around them.
~ Unknown
There may be open doors before me, but I'm always drawn to the one that's locked.
~ Unknown
To stay atop of these such feats is one brave and endless yet rewardless task indeed.
~ Unknown
Value your lows just as highly as your highs.
~ Unknown