Quotes About Resilience

When I first learned that Paul had been killed, the grief had been all-consuming, and I didn't think I would be able to go on. Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.

We get so busy that it's easy to let some things slide. We can either pick them up again, or let them stay lost.... I never thought about knitting like that, though.

Isn't that the way life goes? Just when everything seems perfect and nothing could possibly go wrong, then, boom, you're tossed onto your butt, wondering what in the name of heaven happened.

We don't have a pedigree, but we have big hearts, determination, and guts. The Carney family is grounded and there's a lot of love.

Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings

PEOPLE ARE LIKE TEA BAGS—YOU HAVE TO DROP THEM IN HOT WATER BEFORE YOU KNOW HOW STRONG THEY ARE.

Not knowing what else to try, she got out her heavy cast-iron skillet and banged it against the top of the rad in hopes of reviving the ageing pipes. The noise was deafening, vibrating through the room like a jet aircraft crashing through the sound barrier.

What the people around me failed to understand was that my life as I'd known it, as I'd wanted it, as I'd dreamed it, was over. The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one.

I miss him, even now. I know you do. That's the price we pay when we love. It's joy and loss all wrapped up in one package. The thing you need to hold onto is that while the heart may shatter into a thousand pieces, the soul remains intact.

Each one of us hauled rocks on our backs, some larger than others, I realized. Some people had grown so accustomed to the extra weight that they no longer seemed aware of the baggage.

Don't allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.

Funny how time scrubs away such agony, weathering it through the years, like water rushing over rocks gradually smooths away the sharp, painful edges.

All right, why the glum face now? I get that you messed up, but you need to pick yourself up and move on.

Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.

I think Mr. Roarke's been burned. His tender heart was shattered by a careless affair that left him bleeding and raw.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them, and move forward.

The military might have its heroes, but the wives were the backbone

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

We and all the others and everyone—regardless of the lives we'd led, and more than anything else, and beyond the agonies and dangers that attend every act and action of ours in this life, we all wanted to live. And that desire, if not the result, is something to think about.

Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.

If I've learned anything in the twenty-five years that have transpired between graduation and today it is this: I am stronger than I thought I was and weaker than I'd hoped to be, and in between those two extremes is a little thing called life.

I love this idea, Bruno says. Of being broken but finding pleasure in it.

I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking. She will follow the moon.