Quotes About Resilience

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed.

A gente sofre, acha que a vida acabou, e depois vê que não é nada disso e segue em frente. (Referindo-se aos período dos 19-25 anos)

E se me apaixonar perdidamente por ele, e mesmo assim ele vá embora daqui?) Nesse caso, você vai recolher os seus cacos, juntá-los novamente e prosseguir com sua vida. Mas, pelo menos , pode saber saber como é amar alguém de verdade.

A vida não vem com garantias.

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.

Well, life isn't always what one likes.

A man can't fight always. If he's drowning or suffocating he's got to be smart and hold back some of his strength for the last the final the death struggle.

He too had been taken away from his home. He too had been put into the service of another without his consent. He too had been sent to a foreign country far from his native parts. He too had been forced to fight against other slaves of his own kind in a strange place.

It was hard to understand how his father could be such a big failure when you stopped to think about the thing. He was a good man and an honest man. He kept his children together and they ate good food fine food rich food better food than people ate in the cities.

Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o clock scholar blow off his legs and then watch him holler. Rockaby baby in the tree top don't stop a bomb or you'll probably flop. Now I lay me down to sleep my bombproof cellars good and deep but if I'm killed before I wake remember god its for your sake amen.

See how I sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?

And I just keep going day after day, year after year. Waiting for the patriarchy to die, and through my work, killing it.

We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some of us are on superyachts. Some of us have just the one oar.

Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love.

There was no safe place in all the world for me. My stomach was filled with ice water. Hearing Domini was the final straw. Something in me broke. All the King's horses and all the King's men would never be able to put me back together again.

The older I grow, the more I understand what the burned woman meant. Things I was able to walk through unscathed in my youth would mark me for life or damage me beyond repair now. Things I once shrugged off without thought would now bring about my collapse. I was much more flexible in both mind and body as a youth. I could absorb the impact and roll with the punches.

My heart, soul, body, and mind all have scars that will never properly heal. Still, I survived.

Sometimes I think the biggest challenge in life is overcoming the urge to recoil in horror when you see blackness that lies slightly beneath the skin of the world.

When we arrived we were met by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, both producers of the film. Lorri and I hadn't seen them in over a month and had missed them a great deal. As soon as I heard those New Zealand accents, the feel of "home" washed over me again. They have been with me every step of the way since my release, helping me. Thinking of them now makes my heart feel like it's about to burst with love.

This is where the calluses on a man's hand are bigger than his conscience, and dreams get drowned in sweat and tears.