Quotes About Resilience

Life went on. One can either go with it or let it leave you behind.

And though I continually fight impatience, in all but this vice... I am truly content.

It's said God won't give us more than we can handle.

Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a coming-of-age novel about Ruth Ann (Bone) Boatwright and a difficult childhood made even harder by her violent and predatory stepfather.

In his dark story collection Poachers, Tom Franklin, who once worked in a grit factory, offers the sad and sorry lives of people stuck in the back-waters of the Alabama River, who tend to subsist on a steady diet of moon-shine and stale crackers.

Montserrat Fontes's disturbing novel of a family trying to survive the brutal Porfirio Díaz regime at the turn of the twentieth century, Dreams of the Centaur, is followed by First Confession.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

I never learned how to process my own pain.

As though my self-esteem wasn't low enough from years of abuse, try as I might, I couldn't even get forgiving right!

Well," he said with a sigh, "psychology for years used to counsel to forgive. But we are beginning to recognize that it isn't always possible or even healthy to do that. I believe that sometimes it is important not to forgive, and to hang onto a healthy sort of rage at what happened,

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself, the means of inspiration and survival. —Sir Winston Churchill

To forgive without expressing anger or disappointment is to forgive from a position of weakness. •?Forgiving from weakness only invites more hurt. It never quite catches up with the pain.

Your mother has had a rough life," Grandmother pleaded her daughter's case. "You should feel sorry for her instead of making things tougher for her. Bill was mean and cruel and much worse than Ed. The problem with you Nancy, is you're not forgiving," she concluded.

The only way for me to survive with some dignity and recapture a corner of my sanity was to shut down the compartment that contained the painful memories, the insults, and the lies.

I hope instead she rages!

On April 30 Lucy cheerfully reported that, after three days' illness, she was on the mend. Although she had no mirror, she could feel twenty pockmarks on her face. 'I am almost glad you do not see it.," she wrote, "I don't believe I should get one kiss and yet the doctor tells me it is very becoming.

The soldiers became desperate. 'We were absolutely, literally starved,' noted Private Joseph Martin in his diary. After four days without food, he gnawed a piece of black birch bark off a stick. Then, 'I saw several of the men roast their old shoes and eat them.

Determination, the benign cousin of defiance, drove Lucy to continue enlarging her family to compensate for her lost children.

There are no miraculous responses that will make intense feelings of fear, rage, sadness, and jealousy just disappear in a cloud of smoke.

Epictetus's core claim: We are all hostages of fortune in some way or other.

The sense of being at home in the world through social connection with others is a deep and pervasive Stoic theme. Stoicism, whether ancient or modern, sees social supports and not just inner strength as critical to how we surmount rather than succumb to adversity.

Epictetus opens the Encheiridion with that dichotomy of control: "Some things are up to us and some are not up to us . . . If is one of those things that is not up to us, be ready to say, 'You are nothing in relation to me.