Quotes About Resilience

You make people into what you want them to be and, then, when they break your heart, you have to find the strength to carry on.

We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.

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Be serene. It is not what happens to you, it is how you deal with it.

She had held them together with the sheer force of her will and her overpowering love. What would happen to them all now? Who would keep them all together, make sure they didn't fall apart, didn't rake up the past and cause murders?

If we had been left to our own devices we would have been all right. But, oh, no. I had to have the mother-in-law from hell poking her nose in, opening her big trap.

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

walked from it he hawked deep in his throat before

One thing she knew was that no matter what happened to you, no matter how bad life got, happiness – true happiness – was a state of mind.

Once, a long time ago, I was in a similar state to you. I went to Marge's. Well, she said something that I'll never forget. She said that self-pity was a luxury none of us could afford. Those weren't her exact words, but that was what she meant. You must pick yourself up, brush yourself down . . .' 'And start all over again.' Carla sang the last sentence and they both laughed again.

Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)

capacity of a gnat. She could see that it was better

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. Jean Anouilh

surviving. One day she will have good times, another day bad times. It's called real life and she will have to get used to it.' Kevin hugged her.

it wasn't what happened to you, it was how you dealt with it.

When I did Dangerous Lady, they told me it was too violent and I said – she's hardly going to hit them with her handbag!

find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear.

find a positive instead of a negative, and you will find your life is much easier to bear. The

Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.

The way you treat me baby Cheat and tell me lies I guess I shouldn't care at all But still I sympathize 'cause you got heart trouble Coming on Yeah you got heart trouble coming on Well you think that you don't need me baby But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone

Through the wind and the rain She stands hard as a stone In a world that she can't rise above But her dreams give her wings And she flies to a place where she's loved Concrete angel

The ball doesn't know how old I am.

It is life that hurts you not death.

Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others.