Quotes About Resilience

The earthquake had done a lot of damage in Hollister, but the people hadn't gone animal. They seemed to be helping one another with repairs and looking after their own destitute. Imagine that.

I couldn't move her. She was afraid, and that made her defensive.

That is why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

The ooloi have seen to it that you'll have a chance to live on your Earth—not just to die on it.

All people who know what it is to end should be allowed to continue if they can continue.

I still don't believe you," she said. "Things don't have to be as bad as you say they are.

Octavia E. Butler

I can take a lot of pain without falling apart. I've had to learn to do that. But it was hard, today, to keep peddling and keep up with the others when just about everyone I saw made me feel worse and worse. My

Were all slaves so thin—underfed, overworked, and taught that most things hurt?

breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.

Change does scare most people.

In the 2020s, when these people were sick, starving, or trying to keep warm, they had no time or energy to look beyond their own desperate situations.

It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out.

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.

You're so young. It seems almost criminal that you should be so young in these terrible times.

Humanity in its attempt to destroy itself had made the world unlivable.

I get a lot of grief that doesn't belong to me, and that isn't real. But it hurts.

I reappeared wet, muddy, and scared to death.

Consigo tolerar muita dor sem me deixar abater. Tive que aprender a fazer isso. Mas foi difícil, hoje, continuar pedalando e acompanhar os outros quando todo mundo que eu via fazia com que me sentisse cada vez pior.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back. But things have changed a lot, and they'll change more. Things are always changing. This is just one of the big jumps instead of the little step-by-step changes that are easier to take. People have changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come back.

My brother isn't very smart, but he makes up for it in pure stubbornness.

You can beat this thing. You don't have to give in to it.

So when I did decide that I had to fight, I set out to hurt the other kid more than kids usually hurt one another.

She was too bright to take anything but the most superficial comfort from her denial. But even superficial comfort is better than none, I guess.