Quotes About Resilience

I haven't figured out how to turn it on, but when I do I'm going to be hell on wheels.

though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me.

Craig Johnson

We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.

I couldn't help but make a growling noise. "How long does she have?" "I don't know, but the airspace in her chest cavity is growing and has collapsed the lung; it's now crowding her heart, Walter, to the point that it will no longer be able to pump the blood needed to keep her alive." I set my jaw. "Well, we're going to have to get all western on this, aren't we?

Sometimes I get to where I feel like I'm the only one getting it in the shorts in this life, you know?

A ver nire aitaren etxea defendituko dut, otsoen kontra.

Sometimes when there aren't any other options you should just stay crazy.

I figured if I was gonna die. I'd at least have my say.

Comforting to know that we're the species that feels the most pain.

I just don't understand any of it. I guess I've fought so hard to keep my life that I can't conceive of a situation where I'd voluntarily give it up.

He began moving again, and I spoke after him under my breath in a voice he couldn't have possibly heard. "I wish I had as much faith in me as you do in me." But nonetheless, did. "So do I.

Funny how your attitude about spirituality could change when the chips were down.

I look up at the clear and beautiful gray eyes, at the winning smile of youthful invincibility, at someone far more courageous and determined than I, and sometimes I make it through the entire story. But most of the time, I don't.

The only ammunition against reckless discouragement is relentless devotion.

Adversity may initially appear as the enemy, however somewhere along it's journey it will reappear in the form of a friend, bringing about positive change

Adversity may initially appear as the enemy, however somewhere along it's journey it will reappear in the form of a friend, bringing about positive personal change.

Now discipline must dominate all else. Strength is mind over matter. A great quote from a great friend.

There is no need to worry. Because if something can be changed there is no need to worry and if something can't be changed there is no need to worry. Worrying is a useless waste of energy.

everyone, including the city officials, seemed to be taking direction from Bakhtiyor. Who needs breakdown insurance when you have human rights activists? I was whisked through to the restaurant, where we had a very good meal indeed, with French wine and real whisky. I was amazed. Dima was still considerably shaken and a bit tearful.

You see, it is not what comes against you that matters. It is who occupies you that counts. Christ, the guardian of your soul.

Joining the ranks of some notables who had penned powerful stuff behind bars. Saint Paul, the apostle. John Bunyan. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King Jr. But,

Joining the ranks of some notables who had penned powerful stuff behind bars. Saint Paul, the apostle. John Bunyan. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King Jr.

Here she is at her kitchen table, fingering a jigsaw of thalidomide ginger, thinking about the arthritis in her hands.