Quotes About Resilience

She can be bent so severely that it doesn't seem as though she can ever straighten herself out again, but she always does. She gets on with getting on.

Ms. Kate DiCamillo

Friedrich Nietzsche

Libby is just a girl, but it was a girl of her age who raised the siege of Orléans in 1428 and broke the English army, and no one can say what a girl might have the capacity to endure or achieve.

The thing to understand is that you have to do what you have to do, always and without complaint. That's the way.

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

When you grow up, Jonah, women are gonna break your heart so often, you lose count.

live by the old saying popular with Californians—"Go with the flow"—though that's exactly what happens to a dead goldfish when you flush it down a toilet.

In this crazy future tumbling like an avalanche straight at us, the ambitions of two people didn't amount to a hill of beans.

Earth's creatures other than humankind. Their lives are short and hard and ever shadowed by threat, and they endure periods of hunger when in their foraging they find nothing, and they persevere through sickness without understanding what it is they suffer, and they have seen others devoured by something bigger with sharper teeth. Yet in spite of all they have to fear, they sleep as if they are safe when unconscious, and they wake to each new day with enthusiasm.

Megan Bookman's

We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a destination we can't know. We have a weight to carry and can put it down nowhere. We are the weight we carry from there to here to there. —The Book of Counted Sorrows

But our greatest treasure, hope, remains. It is a sturdy little motor within, purring, ticking, driving us on when reason would suggest surrender. It is both the most pathetic and noblest thing about us, the most absurd and the most admirable quality we possess, for as long as we have hope, we also have the capacity for love, for caring, for decency.

Just like happy, sad didn't last. There was mostly the place between, so the tears stopped before the weather did.

We ceaselessly examine the bits of wreckage in the surf, as though we can put the past together again, but that's just torturing ourselves.

Her stories are often dark but never spiral into nihilism.

Love is the only thing that endures.

Harry Carlisle

When you're on the run from the law, you need beans in your belly, tough-guy food.

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

Mother Nature wasn't really motherly. Mom said nature was more like a bipolar aunt who treated you kindly most of the time but, now and then, could be a real witch, conjuring killer storms and vicious animals, like big toothy mountain lions that, if given a

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A terrible darkness has fallen upon us, but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift lamps of courage and find our way through to the morning. —Anonymous member of the French Resistance (1943)

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