Quotes About Resilience

First you must believe there is a soul.... If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

One thing I can't do is walk around with a long face anymore—the Lord has taken that away." In

Though you thrust a knife at my eyes, I will not flinch.

As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers. In the end, Lynn's stories could not be denied. She was not only a victim, she wanted badly to heal. As her experiences were told and worked through, as she slowly began to come to grips with her past, the personalities within her have slowly begun to heal.

GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Lynn M. Hamilton

She met adversity with information.

It would be so easy—effortless, really—to succumb to her insecurities, to simply sink into them like a rock falling to the bottom of the Thames, and it was the ease itself that terrified her. She would not cower as a duchess the way she had cowered as a debutante.

Now, Doc—" "Yes, Shiloh?" She interrupted with exaggerated sweetness, and fluttered her eyelashes. Shiloh grinned. "I dunno, I musta gone crazy there for a minute. I was actually going to try to talk you out of something. But don't worry, I'm okay now.

MAMA: My mother taught me that you can follow behind everyone and walk in the dust, or you can walk ahead through the unbroken thorny brush. You may get blood on your ankles, but you arrive first and not covered in the residue of others. This land is fertile and blessed in many regards, and the men ain't the only one's entitled to its bounty.

I have grown up to be many things, but dainty sure as hell isn't one of them.

SECRET #47 When life gives you a pile of poop, you're gonna get dirty—so you may as well roll with it.

Sometimes when you least expect it, hope wiggles into your heart.

SECRET #27 When the world gnaws on you day after day, there comes a day when they reach the bone and you just can't take it anymore.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

The man of many shifts, who wandered far and wide, And towns of many saw, and learned their mind; And suffered much in heart by land and sea, Passing through wars of men and grievous waves.

You have superpowers. I don't have supernerves so don't get on them.

She was halfway through the second yard when she heard Cyprien fall and curse. No man in the world will turn down a blow job, Alex thought as she dodged through yards and around the houses, putting as much distance between them as she could. And no man, not even Cyprien, could chase a girl with his pans down.

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it."45

God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest.

The bruises on my arm?"she asked. From pulling you up,"he explained."I'm sorry."He touched her arm as if he were trying to take away the pain.