Quotes About Resilience

Life was too precious to be so fragile

Thoughts can creep up on you, or they can hit harder than a wrecking ball.

That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But you don't believe them.

If you'd slapped me or punched me or even stabbed me, sooner or later it would have stopped hurting.

Malorie Blackman

That's just the point,' Callum said with sudden bitterness. 'This place is like the whole world and the whole world is like this place. So where could I go?

I just stopped living with grief and instead let grief live with me.

Black doesn't break, we will overcome.

God told me, "I have taken one from you, but I will give you thousands.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even the rats carry bike chains as essential defence accessories.

To heal at all, you need first to understand what is lost and why. I know of no fast way that might be done.

We are not given the choice of how and when we must serve, only whether we do so with courage and so perhaps succeed, or with fear, in which case we will certainly fail.

I agree. Kick his ass, sweetheart.

He ran his hand into her long, brown hair and then caressed her cheek. She was so beautiful and so broken. He understood broken. He related to it like no other could. He'd spent his life in a constant state of falling to pieces, held together by sheer willpower and luck. Deep down he knew they were right for one another. That two brokens could make a whole.

Something of an accomplished acrobat, Burgess managed to not only stay on Austin, but race around his shoulders and then down the back of his shirt. That only served to set Austin off more. He fell onto the grass and did a bizarre version of stop, drop, and roll. Except there was no fire. Just a fox squirrel. Every turn Austin did left the bulge that was better known as Burgess moving around under his shirt, easily avoiding being smushed. "Get it off me!

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Wünsche, an die wir uns zu sehr klammern, rauben uns leicht etwas von dem, was wir sein sollen und können. Wünsche, die wir um der gegenwärtigen Aufgabe willen immer wieder überwinden, machen uns – umgekehrt – reicher.

Wenn schon die Illusion im Leben der Menschen eine so große Macht hat, daß sie das Leben in Gang hält, wie groß ist dann erst die Macht, die eine absolut begründete Hoffnung für das Leben hat, und wie unbesiegbar ist so ein Leben.

Der Christ hat sein Betätigungsfeld in der Welt. Hier soll er anfassen, mitschaffen und wirken, hier den Willen Gottes tun. Und darum ist der Christ nicht resignierter Pessimist, sondern einer, der freilich von der Welt weniger hofft – die Welt vergeht – der aber von Gott alles erhofft und darum also schon in der Welt freudig und heiter ist.

Ich glaube, daß Gott uns in jeder Notlage soviel Widerstandskraft geben will, wie wir brauchen. Aber er gibt sie nicht im voraus, damit wir uns nicht auf uns selbst, sondern auf ihn verlassen.

Lucky are those that have no choice but to go on this path, but don't tell me that you are not angry.

See those people holding hands?" he asked at the candlelight vigil outside the still-smoking Taj Hotel. "They're neither Hindus nor Muslims, but citizens of Bombay first.

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.