Quotes About Resilience

Listen," she said. "I may not be what you want right now, but I'm all you've got.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There's only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

I closed my eyes and curled my fists around the things I knew for sure: That a scallop has thirty-five eyes, all blue. That a tuna will suffocate if it ever stops swimming. That I was loved. That this time, it was not me who broke

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.

So you see, this is why I never told my story. If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand.

When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

The truth is, I don't want to be disappointed again. Not by someone else's shortcomings, and especially not by my own.

Falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

She falters, then gather up the weeds of her thoughts and offers me the saddest, truest bouquet.

In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

The whole point of this examination is to make me feel lesser than... but I have spent 20 years seeing how beautiful women are. Not because of how they look, but because of what their bodies can withstand.

Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.

One play down and 497 to Go!

Persistence and passion will make you invincible.

Practice hard, Train hard, work hard and Play harder.