Quotes About Resilience

You couldn't fight the injustice of fate; you could only suffer it and hope that one day it might be different.

It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it.

It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us hope. It meant that no matter what was happening in this camp, no matter how many Jews they managed to round up and kill, there were still more of us out there: living lives, falling in love, getting married, assuming that tomorrow would come.

It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.

Just because you leave someone doesn't mean you ever let them go. Even when you couldn't see me, you knew deep down I was still there.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

Maybe this is all love is - twin roots of pain and pleasure. Maybe the miracle isn't where we wind up, but that we get there at all.

You'd think a house would last forever, but the truth is a strong wind or a wrecking ball can devastate it. The family inside is not so different.

A fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.. And when flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape.

The Japanese believe that it takes three generations to forget. Those who experience a trauma pass it along to their children and their grandchildren, and then the memory fades.

The mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

Here's what they do not tell you about falling in love: there's not always a soft landing beneath you. It's called falling, because it's bound to break you.

May be it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it.

I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.

Maybe bad things happen because it's the only we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look lie.

if there is a garden of maybes, you are the invasive plant I can't ever get rid of.

Build your scaffolding again, but while you're conscious. Use the bricks that you've still got, in spite of the pandemic. Make coffee in the morning. Meditate. Watch Schitt's Creek. Have a glass of wine at dinner. FaceTime the friends you can't see in person. Whatever habits you used to have, stack them up and give yourself structure. I promise. You won't feel as unsettled.

Being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to.

My father died last year," Thomas said. "I still look for him in crowds." "I'm sorry." He shrugged. "I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room—but eventually, you learn to live with it.

people who have been backed into a corner will do anything to fight their way to the center again.