Quotes About Resilience

Oh, get off the cross!" V shouted when I shared my thoughts with her on the phone. "We need the wood!

You're not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you've got to know that, no matter what, you'll be okay. Keep praying.

Return me to that bitch?" I shouted to the sky. "Fuck you! I can take care of myself!

We must nurture our capacity for prayers of submission. If we remain stuck only in prayers of avoidance, we are vulnerable to believing that avoiding loss is the only acceptable outcome. When we ask for only one thing, we are essentially insisting that it is the only acceptable thing. This insistence leaves us highly vulnerable to a range of Satan's temptations. We are vulnerable to engaging in all sorts of problematic behavior.

To hang on through loss, I need to hang on to a throughline.

side. "Not good," he replied, "but I'll live." "Well, quick now, get on Chancer while I see to Master Hogan," Drew whispered. As Whitley grabbed the horse by the reins, Drew scrambled over to the scout, who lay slumped in a bed of bracken. "Get gone," said the old ranger, barely audible. The color had drained from his face, and his lips were pale and bloodless.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia

What difference does a little rain matter, since you'll be getting wet anyhow?

It's hard to believe the old saying that "things happen for a reason" when the things happening to you are god-awful and you just want them to be over with. No matter how I looked at it, I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea that this had happened for some reason that made any sense.

If there was a free-floating feeling, I took it on and tried to work it out.

What's exceptional about our blue marble is not that we had water. It's that we held on to it, and that we still do. While the ancient oceans of Venus and Mars vaporized into space, Earth kept its life-giving water. Luckily for us, the forecast called for rain.

On the up side, the fruit of her "blackness" is a feisty independence that makes its presence felt throughout the poem. She tends her own garden, has her own freedom, and makes her own choices. In a world geared toward the silencing of women's voices, her own voice speaks loud and clear.

Accommodation. A different and sturdier kind of nest. AS

Decades of behavioral blunders and ill-conceived marriages and businesses run amok had left next to nothing by the time Leonard was in high school. He'd wangled himself an engineering scholarship to Cornell and then a job with Dow Chemical during a time he referred to, reverently, as the Dawn of the Absorbency Revolution.

And just like that, she felt like the General again.

Once you realized just how valuable some things—some people—were, you'd fight even the devil to get them back. For her, he'd fight anyone. Everyone.

There is no growth without pain. No life without suffering.

Because he'd learned as a child that the ones in this world who were really strong, they knew how to fear—and how to keep going even when that fear rose like a howling beast inside.

Because he'd learned as a child that the ones in this world who were really strong, they knew how to fear—and how to keep going even when that

But when the SOB had taken Skye… You cut out my fucking heart. He wanted his heart back. He'd get it back.

Sometimes, people need hope in order to get them through the day.

If you live that way, always letting the fear take over, I learned that you're not really living at all.

How many bad things can happen to a person..." Lewis asked, musing, "before they start to lose their soul?