Quotes About Resilience

My heart was glass, daily shattered Your love the glue, repairing the tattered.

Every seed goes through the tremendous struggle of losing itself – losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable to every outside force that's around. But without that vulnerability, without the breaking, without the shedding of the shell, life won't sprout.

Me acuerdo de ti a cada instante, pero tú eres imposible y no estoy triste

Be real with Father and resist the urges to crawl back into your shell and silently endure lifelessness.

Mr. Strike Out!

If you're going to fight, fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp to Noah's Ark. And brother, it's starting to rain. — on a t-shirt being sold by a Bangkok street vendor

Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.

How do you get to be a person who is made miserable because the weather changed its mind, because the weather doesn't live up to your expectations? How do you get to be that way?

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. Perversely, I will not give the happy ending. I think life is difficult and that's that.

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.

plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...

You mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?

A task like that would have killed a thoughtful person, but he went on to live a very long life.

I shall never have the garden I have in my mind, but that for me is the joy of it; certain things can never be realized and so all the more reason to attempt them.

this is how to love a man; and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

Jamela Dunbar

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.