Quotes About Resilience

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.

I'd been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn't do a damned thing for you. You don't feel any better, you don't get any better, and you're too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better. There's

I could taste the blood in my mouth, from where I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

It is the nature of life. Something unexpected happens. Something goes wrong, and the plan must change.

I know what it's like to lose it.

Abusers like to isolate their victims. People who feel that they are completely alone tend not to fight back.

You okay? Fix asked her. Have to be, she said.

So there are things stacked against us," I said. "What else is new?

That's how belief works. The worse the situation is, the more a man's belief can do to sustain him. You've given them something to believe in.

I'd been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most use- less thing you can feel: it doesn't do a damned thing for you. You don't feel any better, you don't get any better, and you're too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better.

If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.

growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.

Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve

I had expected him to try to talk me out of it. Or at least to berate me for being an idiot. He didn't do either. There was a calm acceptance of terrible things that was part and parcel of Sanya's personality. No matter how bad things got, I didn't think anything would ever truly faze him. He simply accepted the bad things that happened and soldiered on as best he could.

How do i do this?

I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead.

There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. Rain

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things," she said. "I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane. Or you become like Martin. Shut off from everything and everyone. Trying not to feel.

Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

Doing battle with the forces of things trying to kill me, or my friends, or people who can't protect themselves is not a rowdy summer adventure movie. It's a nightmare.

The pain we feel in life always grows. When we're little, little pains hurt us. When we get bigger, we learn to handle more and more pain and carry on regardless. Old people are the hands-down champions of enduring pain.

Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.