Quotes About Resilience

Dije: «Señor, si alguna vez en mi vida he tenido valor, dámelo ahora. Permíteme ser lo bastante valiente para no caer de rodillas y rogarle que se quede». –Jamie Fraser.

Diana Gabaldon

And if she had not come back to me...if you had not come...if I had known for sure that both of you were dead...Then I would still have lived...and done what must be done. So will you.

Claire. The name knifed across his heart with a pain that was more racking than anything his body had ever been called on to withstand.

Will this be the end of it?' 'There is never an end to such things,' he said quietly. 'But we are alive. And that is good.

It's only when ye ken ye can say no that it takes courage.

Facing something down doesn´t mean you aren´t afraid of it, I said dryly. Usually quite the opposite.

The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don't come back from. Say ye so, a nighean? True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled—yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

Thought of blowing your brains out? William blinked, startled. No. That's good. Anything else is bound to be an improvement, isn't it?

If ye can stand up, you're not drunk.

It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the passage back to daily life. Each time, the passage became more difficult.

I can bear pain, myself, but I could not bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.

There's nay shame to ha' fallen in battle, mo caraidh, he said softly. The greatest of warriors may be overcome.

And you know bloody well that you mostly cant help them anyway; they've got to do it--or not--themselves.

Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman of great strength, capable of overcoming grief, not once, but over and over again?

I hold no evil in my heart...This evil does not touch me. More may come, but not this. Not here. Not now.

It's what happens when you live through things you shouldn't have been able to live through and can't reconcile that knowledge with the fact that you did.

Jesus H. Christ!" I exclaimed. I felt it again, unbelieving, but there it was. "You always said your head was solid bone, and I'll be damned if you weren't right. She shot you point-blank, and the bloody ball bounced off your skull!" Jamie

I can bear pain, myself," he said softly, "but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

He said, 'If you're sizable, half the men ye meet will fear ye, and the other half will want to try ye. Knock one down,' he said, 'and the rest will let ye be. But learn to do it fast and clean, or you'll be fightin' all your life.' So he'd take me to the barn and knock me into the straw until I learned to hit back.

Not a hothouse flower, this daughter of Leoch, despite her surroundings.

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

His mouth tightened up and he says, 'I thought this was the young man who only a week past was shouting that he wasn't afraid to die. Surely a man who's not afraid to die isn't afraid of a few lashes?' and he gives Jamie a poke in the belly wi' the handle of the whip. "Jamie met Randall's eye straight on then, and said, 'No, but I'm afraid I'll freeze stiff before ye're done talking.