Quotes About Resilience

Don't get your drawers in a twist,' was one of her favourite phrases, 'or you'll find yourself bum-bare in the market-place . . . .

It's how we handle those bad things that measures our worth.

When Riley Tatum vanished twelve years ago, no one sounded an alarm. No one called the cops, gathered a search party, or posted flyers. She simply disappeared from the streets into an abyss. Swallowed whole. She should have died. Been long forgotten. But for reasons she didn't understand, the darkness spat her out.

Why did perfect feel broken?

I wasn't counting on this fight." "We rarely count on the ones we're forced to face.

The fact that Kate was based at Quantico somehow softened the blow of moving again.

Sometimes it's better not to know. Nothing can change what is or what happened and digging around in the past is only going to make you miserable.

Sometimes you had to fight the bullies, even if they masqueraded in the form of family.

But God doesn't make bad things happen or necessarily stop them from happening. What He does do is give us strength to understand and persevere, learn from and through the tragedy.

Anybody that's ever loved has been hurt, some worse than others. Hearts ripped, trust gone, even hope tossed in the trash." Those eyes grew brighter, the voice softer. "But if you fight for it and keep talking, you can get through it to the other side. And that's where you have another chance.

The Lord only gives us what we can handle and

A person could only mope around so long feeling sorry for himself and then he needed to get over it and get moving.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

I will not shrink from undertaking what seems wise and good, because I labor under the double handicap of race and sex; but, striving to preserve a calm mind with a courageous, cheerful spirit, barring bitterness from my heart, I will struggle all the more earnestly to reach the goal.

She stood alone in the blustery wind, as cold in her heart as she was in her fingertips. Finally, moving like an old woman, she got on her mustang and started for home. A home without enough grass. A home with cattle so far from her cabin, it would be a life-and-death struggle to get to them through the winter. A home so lonely that Bailey, a woman who didn't cry let the wind cry for her.

Some days Ursula could barely bring herself to talk for the weight of all her fears, but she could always sing.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

One heartbreak is like a thousand lessons. Loving again is learning them.

Love is a minefield. You take a step and get blown to pieces put yourself back together again and stupidly take another step. I guess that's human nature. It hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow up than be single.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.