Quotes About Resilience

I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together. - demand

That must have been devastating." "At the time, yes," I admit, "but it helped me become me. We grow with every mountain we climbed. Even the ones that we fall down." "Even those we fall down," she says softly, almost to herself. She flicks me a look. "I think falling down is better than not climbing.

It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life.

Know what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't. It'll suck you dry, like it is right now.

My mother used to say that to me and my brother, Gio, and even in the years since she passed, the words echo in my mind, as I know they must in my brother's. After all, we heard those words on nearly a daily basis from the moment our father disappeared until the moment our mother died seven years later.

I'm going to have to grow my own teeth.

I refuse to believe Gio is dead. He's protecting me. It's the only acceptable answer.

Lisa Renee Jones

Memories are the enemies that never die...

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. Spring will come." ? Robert H. Schuller

There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

I realize we can destroy ourselves in ways so deep we'll never return to the place we were before we started the destruction" - Valentine

They do that, you know. Miracles do. Even in the rainiest of seasons, they break through with their sparks of light and life. You just have to make up your mind not to concentrate on the rain.

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You're being punished by your anger.

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.

There was a momentary lull in the shooting and spellslinging, and the kid started scrambling to his feet. I grabbed his arm and pulled him back down. "In my family that's not silence; it's reloading.

The road that went around and between the buildings hadn't been plowed, but Yasha didn't let that slow him down. He grinned at me in the rearview mirror. "No problem. Is like Siberia." "You've never been to Siberia," Ian said, his eyes still scanning for any movement other than our own. "True. But does not mean is not like Siberia.

If I wasn't so happy he was alive, I would've killed him.

Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No?