Quotes About Resilience

That's the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

we cannot change where God has put us. If we are to bloom at all, we must bloom where we have been planted.

Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

Books made me believe that smart girls who didn't necessarily fit in with the popular crowd could be the ones to solve mysteries, rescue people in distress, ferret out international criminals, fly spaceships to distant planets, take up arms and fight battles... Books made me feel beautiful when I wasn't. Capable when I couldn't be. Books built my identity.

We all have scars. It's when you're honest about them that you find the people who will love you in spite of your nicks and dents. Perhaps even because of them. The people who don't. These people aren't the ones for you.

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's. Hannah

Like the beach glass, the wood was more beautiful because of its journey, because of the things it had been through. Inside the perfect shells is dim, It's through the cracks, the light comes in.

I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn't see anything but mountains ahead, that where there's a mountain, there's always a river flowing nearby. Ultimately the river is the more powerful of the two.

Arney brought me back so I could go forward.

Other people's judgment doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't." Zoey

Kids are supposed to grow up and cut the apron strings. I just never dreamed those sharp scissors would leave so many wounds.

my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.

beginning. In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

I clench my teeth so hard the pain travels all the way to the top of my head. I'm glad for it. It's just a little ache, and I know where it comes from. I can stop it any time I want. The one in my heart is way bigger. I can't fix it no matter how hard I try. It scares me so much that I can't even breathe.

you don't have any choice but to quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat—drift on faith for a while.

You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.

The rainbows of life come after the storms.

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over. There's no going back.

Everything I wanted my life to be, it won't be now. The path that brought me here is flooded over.

It's those little nicks and dents and imperfections of spirit that allow us to flow out into a thirsty world. It's our scars that allow us to relate to the scars of others, our suffering that connects us to others who suffer.