Quotes About Resilience

Kai gim? vaikai ir Luisas jaut?si toks kone absurdiškai laimingas, kad tragedija reg?josi tiesiog neišvengiama, jis žaisdavo mintyse tok? žaidim?. Gul?davo lovoje ir prisiversdavo pasirinkti, ko pirmiausia sutikt? netekti: santuokos, darbo, kurio nors vaiko. Jam buvo ?domu, kiek žmogus gal?t? pakelti, kol virst? nuliu.

Love is like a tidal wave. It sucks you under and you drown. But sometimes, love is the only thing that keeps you afloat.

I think my heart can't possibly hurt any more than it already does.

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?"  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a strangehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future

My scholar, my serious, sweet boy, is now a rebel—holed up in his room listening to music so loud it makes the walls shake or texting friends I did not know he had; coming home past curfew smelling of hard liquor and weed. I have fought, I have cried, and now, I am not sure what else to do. The whole train of our lives is in the process of derailing; this is only one of the cars skidding off the tracks.

you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half—before and after—with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

I don't believe in God but sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other and to thrive in spite of the odds.

But let's be real. When you've already failed at killing yourself, anything else you might screw up seems minor.

On the other side of the curtain, two separate wars were being fought. One was to save the life of a women who'd been beaten to near death by her husband. The other was to allow her child to have any kind of a life at all.

No se puede luchar contra la injusticia del destino. Lo único que se puede hacer es sufrirla y esperar un mañana diferente.

Dealing with an autistic meltdown is like dealing with a tornado. Once you are close enough to see it coming, there's nothing to do but weather the storm.

So you see, the real question isn't how I left this world to go to the woods. It's how I made myself come back.

He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.

This is what it means to be human, Bex thought. We are all just canvases for our scars.

Stop trying to act like nothing happened. Because something did, and you can't make it go back to being the same

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right.

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off

That…sucks." I shrug. "It is what it is," I tell her. "The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Anger, it turns out, is a renewable source of fuel.