Quotes About Resilience

All we can do is acknowledge our past mistakes and use what we've learned in order to do our best going forward.

I don't think anything really heals trauma. You just find some kind of narrative to learn to cohabit with it.

Not by a goddamn long shot.

Horrible, horrible things can happen to very good people.

No. Not really. I haven't been okay for a long time, and I don't think I realized the extent of the toll this is taking on me.

Not goddamn dead yet. Like I told you, the day I need someone to brush my teeth, wipe my ass, put me to bed in diapers, is the day I stop living.

Buck up, buttercup, you've come through worse.

There is no animal more invincible than a woman

Clara will break him to bridle," Longmore said. "And if she can't cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he'll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she'll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well." "Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather.

Malo se ona trudila, i mnogo se kajala, / I Å¡ap?u?i >Nikad ne?u pristati< — uvijek pristajala.« (Byron)

Girls who didn't keep their wits about them when gods wandered their way got into trouble. Ask Daphne or Leda or Danaë.

Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

Venice she is like the beautiful cortigiana—the courtesan—who has"—Zeggio frowned, searching for the phrase he wanted—"dropped on the hours of trouble." "Fallen on hard times," James said. "Fallen on hard times," Zeggio repeated. He murmured the phrase to himself a few times. "I see. The same but not the same.

I don't need to be coddled and sheltered. I don't need all my battles fought for me. I do need to be believed in.

And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart, and before they put the other hear tin. When I was connected to the heart and lunch machine. When I was technically dead.... But I wasn't dead now...

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Success can't be forced.