Quotes About Resilience

It's easy to be in love when life is smooth sailing. What deepens it though is riding out the rough waves and finding your way back to what brought you together in the first place.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it." ? Ann Landers

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." ? Joseph Campbell

Life is simple, it's just not easy.

The sun might not always shine on us. But those will be the days that we take pleasure in the rain. ?

Inglath Cooper

Then I hope it is because I am wearing my life well instead of it wearing me.

Along with the other losses I've grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.

Do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future. ~ Queen Elizabeth II

We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.

how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Beyond my fear I felt the need to defend my identity, to not let them turn me into a thing or a number.

I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.

I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.

I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.