Quotes About Resilience

a German shepherd—that lost one leg in a violent encounter

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

Lisa Chelgrin.

Boris Sergetov

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

Joel Bandiri

I'd fled from Death to this haven, but of course in running from him, I had only run into his arms.

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.

No one'll break your heart faster or into more pieces than a Sherpa will.

I have had successes but also failures, because whatever else I might be, I am first and foremost human, and the tendency of our fallen kind is to fall again.

One eye had been torn from its socket.

did not fear either the darkness of the night or the darkness under the sun that can sometimes crowd in upon us when we least expect it.

Hearts and minds heal with time, which is a grace of the human condition

Grief becomes sorrow, and sorrow becomes—" "Enduring

Watching television news of freeway wrecks, apartment-building fires, and heinous murders, one sat numb and unaffected. Music that had once stirred the heart, art that had once touched the soul, now had no effect. Some people overcame this loss of sensitivity in a year or two, others in five years or ten, but others – never. The

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

not one to dwell on loss, because to dwell on it was to disrespect the gift of life and risk becoming obsessed with the fact that all the losses throughout the years eventually lead to the loss of life itself.

T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.

actually Dorian Purcell.

As long as we're not soaked in blood and trying to stuff our intestines back into our bodies through a gut wound, we'll be okay.

indomitability.

the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft a-gley.

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.