Quotes About Resilience

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

Shit happens and its awful but its okay. We deal with it because we havet to.

It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.

I do believe the shotguns helped them accept this reality sooner than they might have otherwise.

The road less traveled will not be smooth

Life - such as it is - always seems to get in the way

Please, please, please, I silently ask a God who should have stopped listening to me long ago.

No ride. So I couldn't go home. No plan. No boyfriend. No job.

In six weeks, I'd be packing up all my stuff and getting the hell out of Pineville. But until then, my life at The Mall would really, really suck.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.

It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.

The more you can let go of the sadness, the more room there will be for light.

I know it's so hard to stay open when you feel like closing.

Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.

Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.

For my mother's entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way.

what happens to patients who don't have the energy or the means to persevere in connecting their disconnected doctors, he said, "They fall through the cracks, and they suffer in their own world, alone.

It is unbearable—and yet I bear it.

To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hear—because it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need. My own illness story has no destination.

When I got acutely sick, I could only dream of such a scenario! Instead, I laboriously made my many appointments, trundling from doctor to doctor, trying to get them to share information and offer treatments.