Quotes About Resilience

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Felicia stayed on the fringe of life because it was free of everyday malice. It was more dignified there.

To survive is an act of hope.

Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Everything else is concrete. Lourdes remembers reading somewhere about how Dutch elm disease wiped out the entire species on the East Coast except for a lone tree in Manhattan surrounded by concrete. Is this, she wonders, how we'll all survive?

He says that hope is a very, very fragile thing and that when you steal it from someone, it can be like stealing their soul. He's convinced that taking away hope is much worse than giving someone the truth, and that those were the alternatives he was forced to choose between.

do many things against you, and if it's your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That's how it works.

Cristina Henriquez

I don't need anyone's pity. My life has been what it has been. It's not a wonderful story, but it's mine.

And yet, what else could he do but try the next

Me pregunto si llegaré a ser alhun día feliz o si me pasaré el resto de mi vida luchando por sobrevivir. Aunque sobrevivo fabulosamente no quiero quejarme. Preferiría esperar lo peor y tener lo mejor... Maria callas

Si no me quiere tal como soy lo siento mucho, pero no voy a cambiar. Sissi, Emperatriz de Austria

la Delfina se cayó al suelo cuando montaba sobre un asno, dijo riendo: Id a buscar a madame Noailles, ella os dirá que ordena la etiqueta cuando una reina de Francia no sabe mantener el equilibrio sobre un asno. María Antonieta, Reina de Francia

En la desgracia descubres tu auténtica naturaleza

La desgracia no mata. Eugenia de Montijo

los que la desgracia les ha unido aún más,

It is dangerous not to believe in yourself and trust in yourself. Because when you do, the things you want the most in your heart can slip away.

No hay vidas livianas. Todas son difíciles de llevar.

But it was long before then that I realized that my mother was no longer there. That she had died with my father. I was a little girl being raised by spirits. In

On Water Street, every person has at least two stories to tell. One story that the light of day shines on; the other that lives only in the pitch black of night, the kind of story carried beneath the breastbone, near the heart, for safekeeping.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.

It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

I'd learned not to put a question mark where God put a period.