Quotes About Resilience

The only way out is deeper in. It's what you don't yet know that can save you.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

It was funny yet pitiable when I imagined how they gathered whatever white cloth they could find, attached it to a dead twig, and marched forward just to surrender

And maps can really point to places Where life is evil now: Nanking; Dachau. —WILLIAM C. KIRBY, Professor of Modern Chinese History and Chairman of the Department of History

Never give up in the face of adversity. It is in the midst of adversity that we grow stronger.

We will reap a harvest if we do not give up. —GALATIANS 6:9

Gradually, she had realized that this was just another wound that would heal if she didn't hold it close, but released the pain and not let it poison her.

What a beautiful treasure tears can be. - Kadar den Arnaud

And how close is a nervous breakdown to going over the edge? You never realize what a tightrope we all walk until you almost slip into the chasm.

Iris Johansen

All those years, all the frustration, just sapped the life out of him. No one is going to do that to me.

life moved in cycles of darkness and light, and even when things were darkest there was usually something bright to hold on to.

the great beauties of the world were the women who displayed not only beauty but character:

You wore what you had the money to buy, and then, if anyone looked down his nose at you, you found a way to tweak that nose—again with the utmost style.

She gave him a cool glance over her shoulder. "May your balls wither away and you develope an allergy to Viagra and all its counterparts." He looked at her, stunned. And then he suddenly exploded into laughter. "God, you're a formidable woman" "No, I'm not. I'm soft, remember?" She slammed the door behind her.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

True strength lies in gentleness.

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you.

We see the condition she is in, and what is admirable is not only that she reached this age, but that she got here in this shape, in very good health.

Castles Burning: A Child's Life in War, Magda Denes

Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi

And they would laugh at me. The dress was all sticking out around me and it was dark green with a pattern of animals with long tongues on it--and all the kids were laughing at me. And now I'm wearing a fur coat, and I'm in Berlin! And I would throw rocks at them and swear to myself that I would not be the kind that is laughed at, but that I would do the laughing.

I bet you never had to live through really tough times." "Yes, I did," he says. Well, I'm not going to ask what he considers tough times. There are those who already feel sorry for themselves when they haven't had a hot meal by three in the afternoon.