Quotes About Resilience

Without fear, there cannot be true courage

She would do whatever it took in the Lord's or the devil's name to survive now.

The pain, the sense of loss, of fear—it would hit out of nowhere. She'd learned this. She'd also learned to accept it, and to bow under it, give in to it, because the harder she tried to shove it away, the harder it hit next time around, and it would be all the more debilitating

There will come a time, a pastor once told him in prison, when you believe everything is finished. But that will only be the beginning.

People misunderstand power. Real power is being at peace with oneself and living in the moment—not being affected by the currents and actions of others.

She didn't have the courage that she'd thought she had a moment ago. She felt humiliated and unable to strip herself fully naked, expose herself and her scars to this man.

Stella, Nathan, and Steven looked at each other in the beams of their headlamps, which they'd clicked on as the twilight thickened. The wind moved the trees again. Darkness was growing complete. The rain was turning to sleet. Despite the sweat over her body, Stella's hands were numb with cold, and her fingers were growing uncooperative. A recipe for hypothermia.

The past doesn't always have to write the future.

Whatever the answers, I am now pushed up against the Monster I've been trying to hide from. And suddenly I face two paths. Just two choices: Either accept this and allow myself to be violated all over again—remain the Anonymous Girl and hide even deeper behind my masks and coping mechanisms. Or this time stand tall. Fight back. Be seen. No longer the ghost.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim.

us down? Does understanding help us heal? I don't think anything really heals trauma. You just find some kind of narrative to learn to cohabit with it.

woman. Courage like a mountain lion. All of that is inside you, Tori Burton,

Nothing could hold back time or tide, or weather, or what was going to come out of this now . . .

sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

I sense that life has dealt Dusty more challenges than most, and that she's found a way to overcome and give back.

Damaged kids were like seeds landed in the wrong ground. Parts of them grew crooked. But they could still grow strong with the right care.

After thirty years on the beat, she finds it harder to center herself these days. A human can take only so much depravity and senseless loss of life.

She wears chunky gold neck jewelry like battle armor and carries a leather briefcase for which some crocodile or snake probably gave its life.

A human can take only so much depravity and senseless loss of life.

Since after the accident. I heard. But sometimes people are broken and don't know how to mend because they aren't able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you've made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it's so deep and bitterly ingrained you can't start.

Her goal in life is to help others cope with mental adversity, to show that one does not have to be irreparably destroyed by horrific actions of the past.

You do not need to be defined by the darkness of your past. You deserve a good life, just like everyone deserves a good life. You have atoned. You have a right to feel worthy.

Loreth Anne White

Otherwise they make me try again. Getting old and sick is not for the meek, I tell you." She hesitates, coughs. "It's such hard work sometimes I wonder if it's worth fighting to stay alive.