Quotes About Resilience

They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims—they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who'd loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen.

Change, for those who don't have a say in it, feels like a pretty word for death. Death to what you want, death to whatever plans you'd been making, death to the life you've always known.

she hadn't grown weaker, as she'd thought, only wearier, yes, but that would change now that she'd remembered who she was.

È un'isola, capo. Ci troveranno sempre.

Over his mother's shoulder, Jimmy saw his father stumble out of the house, his clothes wrinkled and his face puffy with sleep or booze or both...His mother followed Jimmy's gaze and when she looked back at him, she was worn out again, the smile gone so completely from her face, you'd have been surprised she knew how to make one.

Poetry is important to people in a crisis, as love and intelligence are important. These are survival tools.

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

Everyone has been wounded. It is almost inevitable that our parents will wound us in some way. If we are not wounded by our parents, we may be wounded by the death or illness of a parent or sibling, by a bitter marriage or bitter divorce, or if our immediate family is close to idyllic, we might be wounded by some other adult who abuses us or peers who mock us. An unscarred childhood is possible but very rare.

Raise children who are grateful in general, and grateful to be an American in particular, or grateful to be the citizen of any decent country, who don't complain much, who learn to handle losing, and who are guided by values, not feelings. In other words, teach them how to be happy adults.

The only way to get what you ultimately want is to deny yourself short-term pleasures that interfere with your goal.

happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

When Bad Things Happen to Good People and his lectures.

First, instead of allowing the world's evil to prevent me from being happy—which would only give evil another victory—I have chosen to fight it to the best of my abilities.

Everything that leads to happiness involves pain.

part in this story.

Old soldiers never die, you know; they only fade away.

I've walked through this broken life for so long and yet the detritus of my past hails down on me at the most unexpected moments. I learned in the most difficult way imaginable that you can never fully appreciate what you have until it's taken away.

If you really serious 'bout helpin' somebody, crawl down in the ditch with 'em, bandage up their wounds, and stick with 'em until they is strong enough to crawl up on your back and get out

At your highest moment, be careful, that's when the devil comes for you.

Facing the Changes in Life and Mastering Them While alive, the body is soft and pliant When dead, it is hard and rigid All living things, grass and trees, While alive, are soft and supple When dead, become dry and brittle Thus that which is hard and stiff Is the follower of death That which is soft and pliant Is the follower of life The Tao

The future happens, no matter how much we scream.

is the same voices that, in the slave ship, smile at their brothers, "Boy, is just the whip

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.