Quotes About Resilience

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

There's good news and slightly less good news.

Sticks and stones may break my bones', as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it.

Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.

You see, I do believe in miracles. I, who have passed through fire. I do believe.

When the going gets tough, choose your cliché.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.

At17, balanced on that precarious walkway between adolescence and adulthood, the world is a crazy obstacle course paved one day with broken glass, the next with apple blossom.

L'ho lasciata fare. Non ho detto che sarebbe andato tutto bene. Non ho fatto lo sforzo di consolarla. A volte è meglio lasciare le cose come sono, lasciare che il dolore faccia il suo corso.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Witches don't just quit

I know you don't remember her much, Narcisse, but your mother was very strong. Stronger than anyone I've known; strong and sweet as peach liqueur .

Working at King Henry's, and later at St Oswald's, I had always had to be tough on myself, and gentle on men. Men are so very fragile, Roy; so unused to being challenged.

Sufoque o que sente, esqueça um sonho impossível e não vá adoecer por um sentimento sem esperança.

She followed the highway across the bridge, comparing her own life to the river's flow, swift and steady. She'd weathered obstacles - near death, loss and betrayal - which were like the boulders protruding through the turbulent current. Those hurdles may have slowed her down, but they'd never beaten her

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one person having the secret to the puzzle of putting her back together.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

I could have been stronger," she said. "I wasn't enough to keep something so important.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.