Quotes About Resilience

Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259

Rules you can bend give you nothing to lean on.

I'm diff rent! I'm diff rent! as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky.

Self-pity is a worse adversary than ignorance.

I lost myself, but in the end that helped me find myself. You've just got to have faith and work at it." "With anything?" I ask. "Anything," she says, as a gap finally opens in the intersection. "As long as you accept the hardest thing of all: that you might have to lose to win.

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

Life's not all beer and skittles

There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

If the windmill should prove too formidable, said he, from the threshold, I may see what can be done with the wind.

Humor und Geduld sind die beiden Kamele, mit denen man jede Wüste durchqueren kann. (Arabisches Sprichwort)

What horrifying torture this poor man must have endured. Out of a wise man they have made a miserable bundle of flesh and bones.

Tout grandit, m'a-t-il dit un jour, sauf les catastrophes. Elles sont énormes quand elles naissent; ensuite, elles rapetissent un peu plus chaque jour.

Ne zaman ba?lad???, ne zaman bitece?i belli olmayan zavall? bir sirk; bu biziz i?te.

It had sure felt like death, but then everything since had felt like life.

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret... It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure.

Child, do you know where trult great courage comes from, the kind of courage that will never back down?' I said, Faith. And love, she said. faith is a kind of love you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave.

Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee.

Truly tough guys never say they're tough.

In treacherous currents, she is kept steady by a moral anchor the size of a ship.

A part of me knew... from the moment I saw her; her death would have been one wound too many that day.

Like all of us, I was born for joy. This broken world, however, breaks most of us, grinding relentlessly on its metaled tracks.