Quotes About Resilience

Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit.

Sully disapproved of destruction for destruction's sake, which seemed ever more popular in the modern world, but he always took delight in burning out or otherwise eliminating Evil when Evil just couldn't keep its ugly head down and stay in the shadows, when it came right at you with all teeth bared. The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

No matter what happens, everything will be all right in the long run.' 

To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we face it alone.

He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world.

I could live with one butt cheek — just sit at a slant for the rest of my life, not worry about how baggy the seat of my blue jeans looked, get used to the nickname Halfass — but I couldn't live with my brains blown out.

Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet...

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Trouble was coming, sure, but it's always coming, and meanwhile it's best to live with a smile.

Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other—and to me.

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

But just when a man expects he's earned the littlest bit of milk and honey, the world throws a load of horseshit at him.

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

I am getting the chaos I wanted. The problem is, you can switch the chaos on, but chaos itself is in control of the off switch.

The last twenty years had not been kind to him. He looked beaten by time, shrunken by care- and glad to be gone.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

Don't worry too much about the future. The past is past. The future is an illusion. All we have is now, and we'll get through it minute by minute.

War," Pax said, "either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths.

Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope.

Nothing I could say or do would help her. Life is hard in a world gone wrong.