Quotes About Resilience

Mark Twain once said that true bravery isn't the absence of fear, but the ability to act in the face of fear.

Frank," Andy said slowly, "I don't think the hellspawn wants to play checkers with you.

If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off. Ways and means plus determination.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you.

Bravery isn't the absence of fear. It's the ability to still function when fear overtakes you. Some people are naturally brave. Others, like me, learn to fake it. I still had no idea if faked bravery and real bravery were the same thing.

She thought she'd hit rock bottom when she'd passed out in a disgusting gas station toilet, a needle stuck in her arm, lying in a puddle of someone else's urine for hours until the owner discovered her and called the police. But this—an arm's length from a crazy man who wanted to snack on her—this was the all time low.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough ti change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

If you're stuck in hell, you might as well roast some marshmallows. Conversation,

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I bent over to give my hair another shake, and glanced at my boots, along with the several dozen roaches climbing up them. Then I felt them inside the boots, between the suede and the naked skin of my calves. I

If they lived through this, she promised to herself she'd be different. More open. Less worried. More fun. Less angry. More loving.

I'm a grown woman, and I can fend for myself. Now help me put on my pants.

Barry Eisler.

was orphaned and had to educate

Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

Comprendí, mi cuerpo comprendió, que nunca perderé todo y que si gano, no ganaré nunca sin perder".

el trauma que el niño sufre no es la agresión exterior, sino la huella psíquica que queda de la agresión; lo importante no es la naturaleza del impacto, sino la señal que deja, impresa sobre la superficie del yo".

Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

it is quite possible to break a bow by 'shooting' it without an arrow.

The quantity of energy required to break a given cross-section of a material defines its 'toughness', which is nowadays more often called its 'fracture energy' or 'work of fracture'.

Resilience may be defined as 'the amount of strain energy which can be stored in a structure without causing permanent damage to it'.

High-quality swords are expected to be able to recover, elastically, after they have been bent so that the tip touches the hilt.

Now who are you? Who have you left behind in the kitchen? What befell you Over There to give you that God-awful twitch? Are you here to try to crawl back into the skin you had before they pushed you through the mincer?