Quotes About Resilience

We all have our demons.

You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.

Well. You've got me cornered, don't you? I'm at your mercy. Her lips quirked. She took a drag of her cigarette. And I like a man who just won't stop.

Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted.

Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are," I said. "Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

I've got blisters and muscle cramps in places not meant for the touch of anything but a beautiful woman, Max spat back sullenly. I've bitten my tongue so many times in the past three days that I whistle in musical chords when I exhale. And the smell isn't ever going to come out of my armor, I just know it.

planning became a great deal simpler and easier when one didn't have the additional bother of working out how to survive said plan.

Hope lets you do things you would otherwise never be able to do, gives strength when everything is darkest. In

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

Nothing is truly safe in this world—and that being the case, why worry about threats that have not yet appeared? Far wiser to make what preparations one could, face trouble as it arose, and be happy in the meantime.

It doesn't take much power to hurt someone, she said. It's far easier than healing the damage.

Some things should hurt. Some things should leave you with scars. Some things should haunt your nightmares. Some things should be burned into memory.

Scars - the graffiti of violence. - Harry Dresden

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. Crane

Fight like a woman, my ass," Murphy muttered darkly

With your head, the wall breaks first.

Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family

They're always too strong. There's always more of them, and they're always too strong.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

Solution: Winchester.