Quotes About Resilience

For some, Stoicism will always put the accent note in the wrong place.

Sorrow will turn to stone unless you weep. I thought it would come before this. Weep it out.

Overcoming skeptics is still a skill that innovators need.

As she watched, she realized a kind of force field kept her parents together so that even as they fought, they were two halves of a whole. They were joined not only by the laws of marriage and the passage of time and the parenting of a child but by an invisible yet unbreakable bond that held them together even as they struggled to be apart.

It hurts my heart, too, sweetie, but you know what? Sometimes crying is a kind of cure. Sometimes that's what the body and the heart need to do. It's hard to watch, but it's not always a bad thing.

I can't even count the twinges in my hinges, but as they say, if you don't wake up in the morning without something aching, you're dead.

This was excellent news. It had only been a few weeks since her attack so I hoped there would still be scars.

needed comforting after discovering my boyfriend of two years, Todd, had stuck his salami in someone else's sandwich. I referred to him now as my ex-boyfriend 'The Toad.

I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how.

The survivor gets to tell the story.

In this vale of tears we must take what we're sent, feathery, leathery, lovely or bent.

When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared... I, however, considered myself a professional.

Dedication and hardwork is a great combination to start with.

We all have our personal Andes.

Even here, even as we suffer, life is still worth living....

A human being, as I've said before, gets used to anything.

I tell them I am not at peace in spite of what I suffered, but because of it.

We understood, intuitively, that no one in this awful place could be judged by the standards of the ordinary world.

Gustavo and Roberto suspected gangrene, but Rafael never allowed himself to sink into self-pity. Instead he kept his courage and humor, even as the poison flowed through his system and the flesh of his leg rotted before his eyes. "I am Rafael Echavarren!" he would shout every morning, "and I will not die here!" There was no surrender in Rafael, no matter how he suffered, and I felt stronger every time I heard him say those words.

Haal adem. Haal nog één keer adem. Elke keer dat je ademhaalt, leef je.

I am alive,' I whispered to him. 'I am alive.

Spirit fight do not require population to conquer.

Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon

Always this man gives me strength.