Quotes About Resilience

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.

You can't break my heart. It's made of water.

You won't take anything from me that I don't want to give you, Dalton. And that's a fact.

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

I just put my head down and hold onto this crumbling fucking family with my bare hands. And I'm failing at it. I really am. I'm failing so bad and I don't know how to stop.

I've been in pain for a long time, honey. I'm just tired now. You fight and fight and fight and then… Oh my. There are days I just want to stop.

that falling to pieces serves nobody. You can't help anyone else hold themselves together if you yourself are scattered to the wind.

It just goes to show—killing your demons doesn't really end the torment. Real monsters leave behind damage. You can slay the beast a million times over—but the scars they inflict last forever.

Why is everything always so hard?" "That's life, as far as I'm aware. Endlessly cruel.

And when you've fought to earn your place amongst the living, you get to enjoy the spoils," he grimaces. "So I drink more and I fuck more. Because unlike some normal asshole in a normal tie sitting behind his normal computer, I know what lurks in the dark.

My life may be dark and bloody and messy, but I'm alive because I earned it. I'm alive because I fought,

I dare because people like you walk around like you own the world, when really, you spend your entire pitiful life stacking up your lopsided tower of toy blocks, hoping no one bigger and stronger comes along to knock it down. But me? I'm bigger. I'm stronger. And I take a very distinct pleasure in stomping your world to fucking smithereens.

We clean it up and we keep going," I say firmly. "Life is one mess after another, and there's nothing you or I or anyone else on this planet can do to change that. So when messes happen, like they always will, there's only one thing to do: you clean it up. And you keep going. Say that to me.

You said I had two choices. You were wrong. I went with Option 3: burn it all to the fucking ground.

Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.