Quotes About Resilience

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.