Quotes About Resilience

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.

Carry the confidence.

My life sucked, and it would catch up to me, and I'd just crack.

I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.

Love never gives up, never loses faith and is always hopeful and endures every circumstance.

Against all odds and despite all evidence to the contrary, still we trust that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, of our personal tunnel anyway.

It took me even longer to understand that, once you have reached a certain age, you can no longer suffer one loss at a time, that loss is cumulative and, with each new experience of it, all your old losses will join forces and come back en masse to haunt you again.

Time has passed. Things have happened. More time will pass. More things will happen. I have become myself again, but I am not the same. Perhaps that is a good thing... This is my life and I'm going to live it.

He couldn't go on. He went on.

She was a woman who let life happen to her without troubling her mind about things more than was necessary.

They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.

Death might be a necessity in farming, but suffering? Never.

tightly drawn into a mask of endurance.

Margot was a handsome woman in her late fifties. She could lift barrels without help and had legs so sturdy, she never felt the need to sit down. It was rumored she even slept on her feet, but she had given birth to thirteen children, so clearly she must have lain down sometimes.

Adeline was made like a piece of wire with knots for knees and elbows.

half crazed with pain, astounded that the human body could feel so much and not die of it.

Behind it a pile of old rags with a hat on top organized itself into a man, albeit a scruffy one, and struggled to its feet.

No, but it is necessary so we can live. It is the people who do not know this, who think every day about the bad things in their life, who turn bitter and cruel. It is like they are already dead, they are so cold and filled with hate. Like the fundamentalists. So much hate," she said, shaking her head. "Faraz and I, we do not want to become like those people. We wish to be alive.

Don't let emotions paralyze you.

You can't live when you're afraid of daying.

Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back. HERACLITUS

would make it.

I did not do anything. They had a go at me for being who I am That doesn't make sense Conrad said, People don't get attacked just for being who they are Tell that to the Jews Dart said