Quotes About Resilience

She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do.

Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.

It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive." Bast nodded eagerly at this, looking back at Kvothe. Kvothe looked at both of them for a moment, then smiled and chuckled low in his chest. "Oh," he said fondly. "You're both so young.

But he was coming. He would be here soon, all sweet and brave and shattered and kind. He would come carrying and clever-fingered and oh so unaware of oh so many things. He was rough against the world, but even so...

It was shivery and scant. Scared. Skint. But just around the edges it was still scintillant.

Do you know the saying Chan Vaen edan Kote ?' I tried to puzzle it out. 'Seven years... I don't know Kote ' 'Expect disaster every seven years,' he said.

She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones.

Gentle. Which people see as weak.

Tuan volgen oketh ama. I said, using on eof my favorite Siaru idioms. It meant 'don't let it make you crazy' but it translated literally as: 'don't put a spoon in your eye over it.

She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.

Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. They define us. They determine our limits.

As he continued to load the barrow, he moved slower and slower, like a machine winding down. Eventually he stopped completely and stood for a long minute, still as stone. Only then did his composure break. And even with no one there to see, he hid his face in his hands and wept quietly, his body wracked with wave on wave of heavy, silent sobs.

Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth?

Solo la verdad podría romperme. ¿Qué hay más duro que la verdad?

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then.

These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them.

You wouldn't think a girl in bandages with a blackened eye could be beautiful, but Denna was. Lovely as the moon: not flawless, perhaps, but perfect.

The World needs people like you. . . . You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature. . . . Something bothers you, . . . and suddenly you're off. 'I'm not always so terribly sure of myself,' I admitted. Simmon smiled. 'I find that strangely reassuring.

Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man he had known his whole life. These folk knew all about death. They killed their own livestock. They died from fevers, falls, or broken bones gone sour. Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

Needless to say, playing these things hurt, but it was a hurt like tender fingers on lute strings. I bled a bit and hoped that I would callous soon.

PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

I (Kvothe) started to say something else, but she (Vashet) put her hand over my mouth. "I've said I understand. Stop fighting after you have won.