Quotes About Resilience

There are many unintentionally cruel talents that the world, indiscriminately, hands out to us. Whether we can use these gifts we never asked for is not the worlds concern.

David Copperfield.

Durante un período terrible de la vida, el adolescente se defrauda a sí mismo y cree que puede engañar al mundo entero. Está convencido de que es invulnerable.

Sorrow," Frank kept repeating, until he fell asleep. "It's Sorrow," he murmured. "You can't kill it," Frank mumbled. "It's Sorrow. It floats.

Reality, for orphans, is so often outdistanced by their ideals

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once

A cripple's life is one of watching others do what he can't do

IF YOU'RE A VICTIM, THE WORLD WILL USE YOU.

Then the snowshoer explained how he never drove anywhere in the beetle without what he called an emergency novel. If I drive off the road and am lying upside down in a ditch, unable to move my legs or get out of the car, I want to have something good to read. ? John Irving, The Last Chairlift

I'm crying too much- I can't see where I'm going, Daddy,' Ruth told him again. '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?' 'Got it,' she said. 'So,' her father said, 'now you know everything.

Then there is Annileen. I was tempted to call her 'the Intrepid Annileen' just now - because she seems to be able to deal with whatever horror this planet can imagine. That's what I need to become: absolutely familiar with all the dangers here. She takes them in stride. Not because she's fearless, but because she knows she has to go on, to take care of all the people in her life.

When the stormtroopers parted, Hera saw Gord crawling back toward Moonglow's gate. She blinked away a tear of anger. Yes, she needed to see these things, to remind her what she was fighting for.

Maybe she could've come back from her suspension and gone back to work at Transcept, as if nothing had happened. But she couldn't. Because something had happened. A lot of somethings. And it meant she could never return to that life, if she even wanted to. And she didn't.

And the Force? Well, it might be with him, or it might not. Kanan would get by, either way. He always had.

Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As

Some days you get the bear...

commander to a frail man, still jabbing

The greatest crime a human being can commit is to allow himself to be humbled into poverty, into obscurity, into—" She let go of his arm, swept the room with a gesture at once damning and sad. "This. I committed that crime so that you will never

there was always risk; always the promise of pain— But the promise of love was stronger.

face still had the power to torture him. But

I will clamber through the clouds and exist.

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.