Quotes About Resilience

Coyote never loses, Coyote told me. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

Don't mourn us until we're dead. ~ Samuel

Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don't heal or they don't heal completely.

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.

Livin's easier than dyin' most times, Mercy girl," he said kindly, repeating my foster father's favorite saying. "Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.

Patricia Briggs

Unlike human fights -- or even werewolf fights -- vampire fights could take a long time. Not breathing, not needing a beating heart meant that a vampire was dangerous long after a werewolf would be unconscious. It takes a great deal of damage to make a vampire lose consciousness.

Shut up," I said fiercely and very quietly because the sound of his voice sent sharp, arcing lightning rods of pain from my eyes all the way through my skull.

Not all relationships that end are failures.

Healthy pain invites healing. Gabriel is a good boy; he'll be a good man. Not all relationships that end

Samuel laughed out loud. "You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.

I am determined to have the headache Thursday, if I have to hit myself with a rock to do it.

She lived here for a while until she couldn't stand having strangers stand outside and shout, "Rachel! Rachel, send down your chair" any longer.

William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of the time he didn't say much. But when he was curious about something, he was stubborner than a bear after a honeycomb.

Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready.

She said that time and death are the greatest enemies all of us must face, and the only weapon stronger than they are is love.

Haven't you learned by now that it's always one thing after another? Being busy is no excuse. Everyone's busy.

That is quite enough of that," she said, handing the handkerchief to Shiara. "It does nothing constructive, it makes everyone else feel bad, and it is extremely self-indulgent. Drink your cider. You'll feel much better.

When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would've prepared one in some way. This is not the case.

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

Life is not meant to be easy, child. That is why we pray for God's strength to help us bear it.

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

you can do one of two things. You can blame God for your misery or you can turn to Him and draw strength from His love. He is always there for us.