Quotes About Resilience

Life is like that. Destruction precedes emergence of something better. Destruction is not bad. It only feels that way.

Aside from being terrifying, it was totally humiliating. Rose Tyler, Barbie doll.

After the first death there is no other.' Do you know who wrote that?

The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.

But here alone, not needing to take care of anyone else and not caring very much what happened because all the worst things had already happened, she stepped into the

I'm amazed at the number of women who love demolition work.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now...it's like quitting before you start.

She was climbing Mount Everest and the air was invigorating and wonderful. Even if every second verged on crisis, this was part of living - not just watching from the sidelines.

Helen Lawson: They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

I put both my thumbs under my chin and pushed upwards. Chin up, Shirley, I commanded

Jacqueline Wilson

I sniffed and dabbed at my eyes fiercely. I told myself I was only tearful because I was tired.

I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be.

Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.

She would not allow someone for whom she had so little regard to have a negative effect on her mood at the start of a new week. -Pardonable Lies

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena