Quotes About Resilience

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

Sorrow floats.

If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews , Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.' (David Copperfield) "But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible holes in the prophylactics, the phantoms of those days were not easy to detect—and their meaning was unknown—but they were there.

That's what I love about boys," Marion told him. "No matter what, you just go about your business.

You don't sound very well Owen. I pointed out to him. IF JESUS HAD TO BE BORN ON A DAY LIKE THIS. I DON'T THINK HE'D HAVE LASTED LONG ENOUGH TO BE CRUCIFIED. Owen said.

Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away.

You are never over your childhood, not until you are under the train—unter dem Zug.

Well, you finally got me, Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestling mat, wondering who had gotten whom.

But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not. And because that is what happens, this is what we need: we need a good, smart bear.

For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.

Don't grown-ups ever get over things?

Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things.

But that's the test, Ruthie. The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull over—sometimes you can't stop, and you have to find a way to keep going. You got it?

The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

We had learned this fact of Sorrow, previously, from Frank: Sorrow floats.

DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.

Hello, my name is Beth. I'm an Ellen Jamesian. And Garp would give her this: Hello, my name is Garp. I have a broken jaw.

You are never over your childhood, not until

If an orphan is not adopted by the time he reaches this alarming period of adolescence, he may continue to deceive himself, and others forever. "For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.