Quotes About Resilience

Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to Queen Maureen said And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.

Don't go fighting my battles for me.

If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

The moral of the 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 moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending

There were some memories, she knew, you could run from forever and never shake. Josie

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.

At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one.

A human heart breaks harder when it's dropped from a greater height.

people who didn't talk about their problems got to pretend they didn't have any. People who discussed what was wrong, on the other hand, fought and ached and felt miserable.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. —WALLACE STEGNER, THE SPECTATOR BIRD

Why bring up something that hurts so much, if it's not going to change anything?

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow-- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their course.

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

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 moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of.

I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

The Center had suffered scars from the cuts of politicians and the barbs of protesters. It had licked its wounds and healed. At one point it had been called the Center for Women and Reproductive Health. But there were those who believed if you do not name a thing, it ceases to exist, and so its title was amputated, like a war injury. But still, it survived. First it became the Center for Women. And then, just: the Center.

Amnesia was one way for the mind to protect itself from reliving something that would otherwise break you apart.

We are all just canvases for our scars.