Quotes About Resilience

We have lots of ups and downs, pleasures and pains, but that's life and we learn to accept the bad with the good. Without the bad times, we wouldn't appreciate the good times.

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar.

who can say why these things happen on Thursday, when the same events might have gone unremarked on Tuesday?—they fought back. A dozen women turned into a hundred. A hundred into a thousand. The police retreated. The women shouted; some made placards. They understood their strength, all at once.

Roxy doesn't run from fights at school. . . . You've got to stomp them till they beg. You don't run.

If you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

She can't afford to afford to look weak, not at a time like this.

She could run. There's her dad's voice in her head, saying, Take care of yourself, sweetie. And there's her mon's voice in her head, saying, You're a hero, act like it.

Not the past, not the lines of pain inscribed on the human body, not a thing will ever disappear.

Nothing worse has happened to him than to anyone. There is no reason for him to be afraid, no more reason than any other man.

People are allowed to be weak.

It's a sort of pride to her that she watched the whole thing without wincing or looking away or carrying on.

Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.

I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

Shikataganai, desho

Sailing was never my thing,

There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.

People without memory are putty.

Naomi Mitchison,

It comes, I suppose," I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, "of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don't always stay where you put them.

sustains us day after day. But the relentless

This is the deck of cards you've been dealt. Now you have to deal with it.

How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

this was the only answer she'd ever found to evil: to go on living and to help others live in happiness.