Quotes About Resilience

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

Believe, it is our best defense.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

The car emitted on last gasp and rolled to a stop, in the middle of the Altlantic Ocean. "We're here," Leven tried to joke.

There are people who believe in you. You might not always believe that yourself, but there are—parents, teachers, neighbors, relatives, me. I know that no matter what is thrown at you, you'll recover amazingly.

some of the stuff you mourn isn't worth the energy. Life will be full of many other things to distract you and cause worry.

Yes, there are some backs on the street which cry for the knife.

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn you, Give you strength. But beware: God is Change. Past is past. What was Cannot Come again. To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. As though the Germans had been trying to do in only a few years what the Americans had worked at for nearly two hundred. ... Like the Nazis, antebellum whites had known quite a bit about torture - quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn.

I'd rather see the others." "What others?" "The ones who make it. The ones living in freedom now." "If any do." "They do." "Some say they do. It's like dying, though, and going to heaven. Nobody ever comes back to tell you about it.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: "I couldn't really let her come all the way back. I couldn't let her return to what she was, I couldn't let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn't leave people quite whole."1 Time

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

why can't I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she seemed to die a little.

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.

His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted.

To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.