Quotes About Resilience

When it rains, her father said it pours.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises.

You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.

The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve.

the image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.

I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. —JAMES BALDWIN

All of us are grieving something. But while we are, we're putting one foot in front of the other. We're waking up to see another day. We're pushing through uncertainty, even if we can't yet see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are battered and broken, but we're all small miracles.

When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have two options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can give yourself up to it.

Reality is frigid; I have to dip one toe at a time and grow accustomed to the shock before wading in further.

How do you do it? Do what? All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered. Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he reached across the seat and brushed his thumb over her cheek; until then, she hadn't been aware she was crying. Trix, he sighed, it mattered.

She believed that unadulterated devotion had its share of protective power, as if love were a steel grinder that Fates could not snip through. She also believed that the moment you relaxed your guard, the moment you were anything less than ferocious in your keeping, that was the moment it could all be snatched away.

The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it's the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole.

Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

It's amazing how easily someone can leave your life. It's standing on a beach and stepping back to see the hole of your footprint subsumed by the sand and the sea as if it were never there. Grief, it turns out, is a lot like a one-sided video conversation on an iPad. It's the call with no response, the echo of affection, the shadow cast by love. But just because you can't see it anymore doesn't make it any less real.

How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom

Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.

There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.

Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as important as what was right.

I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all.