Quotes About Resilience

You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.

With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well as happiness. Even the most blessed lives had both. She'd live them as they came.

We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger's back. But those left behind had a right to know more about the beast who'd chewed their lives and spat the remnants out.

They never learn, fish. If they pulled against the line and kept pulling, they'd break it. But they give a tug and wait and hope we've gone away." He winked at her. "Always keep on fighting, Matilda my darlin'. Don't end like a fish.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

If I stop to kick every barking dog, I am not going to get where I'm going.

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if by walking long enough, hard enough, she might forget.

The terrible thing about pain is that it doesn't matter, it still hurts. It hurts like hell.

Animals are luckier; they can bury their heads in sand, hide under their coats, pretend to have no head at all.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Nightmares do not interest her. She seeks only beauty, though sadness charms her, for often the deepest beauty can be found residing in sadness.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand

Yell. Heckle. Do anything you want. We came here to play baseball.

Jackie Robinson

We don't get to choose our formative moments. Very often, adversity and failure shape us more permanently than fortune and success.

Take life one basket at a time.

They say it can't be won, The way the game is run. But if you choose to stay You wind up playin' anyway.

These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!

I suspected other people were better at living than me. Did others elbow their way through fog, rising out of it somedays, relief blending with terror at its return?

You've loved with intensity and passion, and have learned to hide your heartache, learned to press your handkerchief back into your pocket and pretend that you are okay.