Quotes About Resilience

I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we're not as big and mighty as we thing.

Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at something.

I stand and brush the tears from my eyes. The hen is gone, and the harp that was my mother's, and all of our gold; my husband is gone, too. The castle I shared with him is an empty shell now, robbed of everything that mattered—but I have one last use for

I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

I'm sometimes amazed the human species survived to the present day, given the things we did to ourselves in the name of healing." p. 103, Elemental Imbalances

And since human minds are very good at finding patterns, and ours had recently shifted from looking for bad luck to looking for good, we wrote off setbacks as expected, rather than proof of misfortune.

Hvis jeg ikke havde været så heldig at falde så dybt ned i min sygdom, ville jeg måske ikke have haft styrke til at føre denne konfrontation med mig selv til ende.

A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking.

REBECCA: If you sit long enough, maybe everything becomes clear. Maybe you can make sense of all the losses and find one thing you can hold on to. I'm sitting here thinking of everything that has passed, everyone that is gone, and hoping I can find her, my mother. Not because she is my first choice, but because she is my last choice and... my world has gone to shit.

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again

first principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events

We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

I win or I learn, but I never lose.

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

Remember that gal that gave up? Neither does anyone else. Unknown

Make is-ness your business and meet life as it shows up—not as you prefer it to show up.

If you believed to your core that everything really is figureoutable, what would you now do? What would you create or heal or transform or transcend? Who would you become?

a fall is never final unless you stay on the ground.

No matter what you're facing, you have what it takes to figure anything out and become the person you're meant to be.