Quotes About Resilience

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. But it had to go through its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech.

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night we drink you mornings and noontime we drink you evenings we drink and we drink

Encréspate, ola! ¡Pez, atrévete a salir! Donde hay agua se puede vivir otra vez, otra vez invocar al mundo al cantar a coro con la muerte, otra vez gritar desde el desfiladero: mirad, estamos al abrigo, mirad, la tierra era nuestra, mirad, ¡cómo cortamos el camino a la estrella!

I looked out my window. We were cruising above a plateau of shaving cream clouds. That bothered me; I didn't like not being able to see the ground. A missile could be racing up at us right now. I looked over at my two friends. They were talking excitedly about something, and that made me feel better. Friends are the key, I think. If you have good friends, you can get through anything, even Vietnam.

Entre eso y las amenazas de muerte que recibió, la nueva ministra supo que iba por buen camino.

Christopher Lassiter pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes. Quiet desperation is the English way.

Courage grows when you act in spite of your fear.

This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes

A man will rise,a man will fall.From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall

The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners.

What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?

Psalm 27 tells that even in the middle of difficulties that we do not understand nor seem able to escape, we have reason to take heart and have hope.

you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.

When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.

God's grace often does its best and brightest work when things are the darkest and most difficult.

Suffering causes us to scan our lives and face the fact that we control very little. So we mourn not only our suffering but also what it has forced us to admit about ourselves. Our loss of the illusion of control also adds to the fear that accompanies suffering.

The world we live in is a house of pain, and we cannot live in it without it touching us. You will never be smart enough to escape its grasp. From the violence of childbirth to cut fingers and scraped knees, from sibling mockery and peer rejection to familial brokenness, suffering is part of every phase of human existence. We enter life through suffering's door and we exit life through suffering's door.

Suffering doesn't make us weak; it simply exposes the weaknesses that have been there all along. It exposes the delusion of our sovereignty and independent capability.

You can lose it all, but nothing can take life from you, because what defines life is simply not for the taking.

even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic.

All the things that disappoint you now are to remind you that this is not all there is

Self-control is a fruit of his work.

Suffering makes us susceptible to the one voice we should never hear and that will always do us harm.

God's often-repeated declaration that he will not leave sits on the pages of his Word as a protection against the lies to which suffering makes us susceptible.