Quotes About Resilience

we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...

Even in the most wretched life, there's hope.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

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. —MARIE ANTOINETTE

memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.

trunk. "Only you and Octavian can endure it. Our mother would never

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so, Mutnodjmet.

I would survive this. I'd survived worse things. After all, I was bamboo, and bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

I was becoming a tree rooted in the soil of tragedy, he said, and with every fresh reading I was watering the roots, sinking deeper, allowing my pain to grow stronger. "Plant your roots in fresh soil," he told me. And so my words were shut away.

The best any of us can do in life is to try to build a strong foundation on which to stand," she said. "And then meet life as it comes, as courageously and honestly as possible. If we fall, well it is fate. It is destiny!

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.

If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes.

When I first met you,' Pirra said levelly, 'we were stuck on an island with no food and no water. But we survived.' 'That was different.' 'I know, but if anyone can survive out here, it's you.

Forget about your scar,' he told her. 'It doesn't matter. The Moon has scars, but it's still beautiful.

I was no longer the frightened obsessive who'd cowered in the storm and fought an illusory battle with a log. I was Jack Miller, the man who's keeping the 1937 Spitsbergen Expedition alive against all the odds.

The cub felt in her fur that although he was not lion, yet there was lion in his spirit.

It's no use, Userref, I can't go back.' 'You must,' he said gently. 'This isn't about being free any more, it's more than that now.