Quotes About Resilience

If we abandon all hope right now, does that in some way protect us from some bigger pain later?

Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn't the world already given us challenges enough?

You love the people they were before, below all the awfulness that made them do this thing, you know?

mantra that "I can write through anything" to

Anna is something wrong " he asked his brow furrowed. Yes I want to say. You ran a prison camp for Jews. You keep my parents locked in the ghetto. You let your wife's father be killed and would kill Jacob too if given the chance. Your wretched Gestapo came to our house and now Lukasz might have to leave us. Let me count the ways. Of course I did not dare to say any of this. "No Herr Kommandant " I replied managing to keep my voice even. "Everything is fine.

There have been circuses from the times of the Romans and Greeks, our traditions centuries old. We had survived the Middle Ages, the Napoleonic Wars, the Great War. We would survive this, too.

No me he permitido pensar en esas cosas, sabiendo que, si me permitiera siquiera un goteo de recuerdos, me ahogaría en una marea que sería incapaz de frenar.

rousing myself from my memories.

My eyes begin to sting. I brush my hand across them impatiently. Crying isn't going to help. I have to figure out what to do.

You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live.

You reminded me who I used to be before the war. I want to be that person again.

Quieres a las personas por lo que eran antes, por encima del horror que las hizo comportarse como lo hicieron.

makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home.

When one is trying to stay afloat in deep water, one grabs at any stick that is offered—and tries not to notice that the stick is in fact nothing more than a wisp of a reed, practically useless in the strong current.

There is a flash in her eyes as she expects to be rejected yet again. How is it possible after all that she has been through that she can still let people hurt her?

Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods.

Pam McCutcheon

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

Life can be cruel and uncomfortable at times. That doesn't define you. It's how we survive and create a colorful life with our experiences. Good and bad.

Joseph grinned, his teeth bright white in contrast to the dark paint on his face. "Somewhere inside Wentworth's body is a man fighting to come out." "So it seems, brother." -Joseph and Morgan

Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah] God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

It wilna end wi' me, Campbell. Slay me, and you'll face my brothers and after them my Muhheconneok kin. You cannae possibly kill us all.

So that's it? You're just going to rescue me and go?