Quotes About Resilience

She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted. "I know. Fear is only fear, though." "And somehow you live without it." "No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

We are fish swimming in a cooking pot

She shrugged, knowing all too well how easy it was to long for a different life, how hard it was to find one's way there.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.

Sometimes darkness rode him like a harpy, but still. Funny. My Lord, he was funny. Even when his life was ricocheting from city to wife to book to tragedy—of which there were more than a few—he remained one of the funniest men I ever knew.

Everyone May Have A Different Source Of Inner Strength, Keep Close To Yours.

A big tree catches the wind' is a true saying.

it was wartime. People were being bombed out all over the place. Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.

Soha életemben nem követtem el b?nt - mondtam határozottan - Mi másért lenne ide bezárva, minthogy b?nt követett el? Éppen az bizonyítja, hogy b?nös, hogy itt van.

We are constantly "knitting" ourselves from people and situations that we encounter, through the words we exchange and the feelings that arise. We might feel that if one "stitch" is dropped, our lives will unravel. In fact, "if just one stitch holds, we can start all over again.

i was a prisoner of events

We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.

Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

Hören Sie auf niemanden, der Ihnen sagt, Sie sollten nicht allein trinken.

Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature but great was her fame; Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were cuttied off she fought upon her stumps.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

when confidence is undermined or ruptured, it can be difficult to do the simplest things, or to take any enjoyment even in trying.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.