Quotes About Resilience

Once you've taken the knife out of your heart, it makes for a wonderful story.

You can do it for I am one to believe. When I first met you, you wore a stain on your sleeveIt was a stain of strength, courage and warfare. You gave me strength, you encouraged my will to keep holding on. Some things we learn from others, yet most things of which we are born. I believe in you as you believed in me. I didn't give up and neither will you. With us in agreement, we will make it through!

He said I might be able to fix things that are broken." I glanced around the room. "Did he mean this furniture?

I'd never been a big fan of disappointment.

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.

If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered. "What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail." "We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

have to work through some problems, period.

God got a plan to help everybody overcome their weaknesses.

The Bible says we all gonna leave here one day, but He didn't say we all had to leave here sick or senseless.

Sometimes people had to hit rock bottom to get to the Rock at the bottom.

Some of us just be beggin' to learn the hard way.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, NIV

when someone is going out of their way to make you miserable, recognize that it's the enemy using that person to discourage you.

we're believers. We have an enemy in the land. We shouldn't have to apologize to one another for being attacked—we all go through it.

God said he wouldn't put more temptation on us than we can bear. Not more troubles or problems. I mean, if we could bear everything that happens to us, we wouldn't need Him.

and give me insults, give me economic discrimination, give me the darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books banned in libraries across america, feed the world with lies about my life and plop a second helping of oppression on my plate and thank you for not making me straight.

You can't let the apocalypse rule your life.

So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.

I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

French Caribbean island of Martinique, a tiny territory less than one-fourth the size of Long Island, imported more slaves than all the U.S. states combined.