Quotes About Resilience

I give thanks for the wise qualities of the evergreen trees that have stood by me this day: may you show me how my own heart can be evergreen and growing through winters of doubt and darkness.

Grinding her teeth together, she hoped the bastards weren't cheering yet, because it was going to take more than one bullet to kill Jenny Jones.

Maggie Osborne

Her silver spoon was gone. She wasn't coming back.

Life is long. Things can resume.

Maggie Shayne

the rage she'd stored up back then would be all she'd need to keep her going now. Just long enough to unleash it on a worthless, abusive pig.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

Fear—real, honest-to-God debilitating fear—is an affliction.

Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

closing your eyes in dark is better than weeping for any thing without any conclusion

We highly recommend that you write out an Intent Statement and develop the ability to act congruently with that intent, even under pressure. A good exercise for clarifying intent is provided in Appendix Two.

A loving heart finds joy in every moment. Nothing can resist its power for growth.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Quand la poisse vous étreint dans le ventre de votre mère, elle ne vous lâche plus.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.