Quotes About Resilience

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven't been able to change the puzzle instead?

Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

she told me she'd be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don't really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

something is always falling apart in me.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, this too shall pass - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

I pointed to the wound. It's missing, I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. Yes, she said. But see how much of me is left?

In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

You can run but you can't hide... but I can try. I feel air catch in my lungs and I get a cramp in my side and this pain, this wonderful physical pain that I can place, reminds me that after all I am still alive.

A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.