Quotes About Resilience

You may not believe it, but standing up to people is the only way to get through life with your mind intact. Nothing was gained by giving in.

Please go away," she whispered. "Leave me in peace." He scowled. "Cecily…" "Please, Tate," she pleaded gently. "Just go home and forget that you know where I am. I've broken all my ties in Washington, I've put it all behind me. It's just me and the baby now." "You and the baby and your mythical dead husband," he shot back. "What do I have to do to get through to you?

After the pain, the pleasure.

But you'll get used to it. Life has to be lived. You can't sit by the road and watch it pass.

We all go through periods of anguish, times when we think we can't face what lies ahead. But the only way to get past it is to go through it, straight through it. No detours, no camouflage, no running. You have to meet problems head-on, despite the pain.

Love, for some people is undying, even if one lost the partner.

and the boys made fun of her skinny legs that were always bruised and cut from her tomboyish antics at the ranch. There was one special boy, Jake Weldon. Maggie pretended not to notice him. He was one of the boys who made fun of her, and it hurt really

Under fire, you're always afraid. But you harness the fear and use it, attack when you'd rather run. You learn the meaning of courage. It isn't the absence of fear. It's fear management, at its best. You do your duty.

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty Twinkle said. Oh shut up! Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. Why don't you grow up?

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

if the spell was off, I'd have my heart eaten before I could turn around." "Don't you want your heart eaten?" asked the fire. [...] "Naturally I don't," Sophie answered.

And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for. I mustn't give in.

You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

It was time for a strong-minded woman to take charge. Abdullah was quite glad that Sophie was one.

People kept coming up to her all day, saying, "Is it true what Nina says—you come from a broken home?" "Broken right in half," Polly replied to each one. "There's a hole in the middle where the garden is. You get rained on trying togo upstairs." (p. 154)

Derk was sick of falling backward into his trench, but he never had time to invent a different way of being killed.

I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place! Trod on all my tomatoes, he did, last year.

I hope your bacon burns," Calcifer said, muffled under the pan.

You're still here, he said. Is something the matter? Sophie sniffed. I'm old, she began. But it was just as the Witch had said and the fire demon had guessed. Michael said cheerfully, Well, it comes to us all in time. Would you like some breakfast?

He could not believe things could get any worse—so they had to get better.

Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?" Howl asked. "Make toast!

she knew that if anyone wanted to turn her out now, they were going to have to use extreme and violent magic to do it.