Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

But you see Annie, where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope.

You can take a book to the beach without worrying about sand getting in its works. You can take it to bed without being nervous about it falling to the floor should you nod off. You can spill coffee on it. You can sit on it. You can put it down on a table, open to the page you're reading, and when you pick it up a few days later it will still be exactly as you left it. You never have to be concerned about plugging a book into an outlet or having its battery die.

You don't feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling "courageous." It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger, you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

When you are having difficulties, a single attack of "Yeahbut maybe I should compromise a little for the sake of practicality" can bring an inglorious end to the fulfillment of your dream.

wages and rewards of going with the flow of your programming. The willingness to feel fear and keep going forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

Failure to improve is rarely a physical failure; it's almost always an entirely mental shortcoming.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Break-ups are survivable. It´s the aftershocks that get you.

To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can tell, an almost-universal parental desire. It

When life is awful, it's a terrible thing to live without hope. There's nothing worse than to believe that nothing will ever change – that every day will continue to be like every other.

Oh, you can't hate people forever, can you? Sooner or later it always becomes clear that however awful they were to you, they were still trying to do their best. Nobody sets out to be awful, do they? But we're all this collection of traumas and hurts and dysfunctional mumbo-jumbo trying to be functional and logical and wise.

Oh, I try not to regret things too much,' Mum said. 'Unless you're God and you know everything, including the past and the future, most of life is pretty much a question of closing your eyes and stabbing at a map. You have to try not to give yourself a hard time when things turn out to be not as good as you'd hoped.

client once said that it was like a bottle full of pain, if you can imagine that. And each time you let yourself remember, each time you let yourself feel the pain, each time you cry, you empty the bottle a little bit. So it becomes easier to carry.

It reads 'BLYTH MINERS WIVES. Thatcher snatched our milk, now she wants our daily bread.

Barbara ne pose pas de question. elle ne veut pas savoir ce qui s'est passé. Ce qu'elle sait, c'est que chacun ici reçoit son lot de malheurs et qu'il ne sert à rien de les partager, qu'en parler ne fait qu'alourdir le fardeau des autres. C'est une immense leçon de vie qu'elle n'oubliera jamais.

Vamos con la reserva». Alice repite la frase mentalmente porque es un buen resumen de su situación. Hace años que Ken y ella entraron en reserva, y es increíble lo lejos que se puede llegar cuando uno se deja llevar por la inercia, cuando el único motor es la esperanza. Aun

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.