Quotes About Resilience

it made her angry, and since she could do nothing with her anger, it made her sad.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

We have to remember this," Parvana said. "When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat.

Life is dangerous, but we're all brave, aren't we?

Afghans love beautiful things, but we have seen so much ugliness, we sometimes forget how wonderful a thing like a flower is

All girls [should read] THE BREADWINNER by Deborah Ellis. ~ Malala Yousafzai

Like it or not, you need to know how to do this. Your future depends on it. You give up on this, you will give up on the next difficult thing, and you are too smart and too strong to start giving up.

Grandmother was gone. The house was gone. Green Valley was gone.

We have to remember this," Parvana said. "When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat. Will anyone believe us? No. But we will know it happens

that in the midst of heartache so deep it was a physical pain, she was finding a deeper joy and contentment in life than she'd ever known.

There's been too much hurt. Too much pain. I just want it to stop.

Temos de nos reconciliar com os obstáculos que não conseguimos derrubar. Admitir que fazem parte de algo que não foi desenhado por nós e que nem sempre podemos alterar.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

I stood there, my head bowed, my shoulders hunched. This is how it feels to be dragged from the cement shoes of a comfortable rut. The slow, steady strain on my legs became an excruciating amputation. My ankles pulled free from my feet. Bones snapped, cartilage tore, veins pulsed blood onto the soft brown clay of the yard.

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. —Beverly Sills

It's not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It's how you get over it.

As the old French proverb warns: "He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.

If you stay true to yourself, you will always remain on track, even if that track takes you off the beaten path, to places you could not possibly imagine.

There were two things a girl learned to do simultaneously at a very young age: knee a guy in the crotch and scream at the top of her lungs.

life is not something you can plan down to the moment. It happens. You try your best to be prepared for whatever life brings, but the one thing you can't do as long as you're breathing is stop it from happening.

Life was quite often like business. Even when your journey veered off-track, you simply recalculated and adjusted your trajectory

that life is not something you can plan down to the moment. It happens. You try your best to be prepared for whatever life brings, but the one thing you can't do as long as you're breathing is stop it from happening.

There was no true recovery from the loss of a child. A part of her was broken and it couldn't be fixed.