Quotes About Resilience

I wanted to be a religious leader when I was young and now I just reside in my house and try not to be too unhappy. I have a friend living with me, which makes it easier.

I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

She could still be. She could still be a mom and a wife, and there were still things she could be from bed. She could still find joy in her children. She could study and learn.

For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

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I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

Where there is life, there is hope.

Every time we try and get it together, something happens to pull us apart, and I can't help but feel that this is just isn't meant to be. And God knows I'm happy enough on my own, but tell me, is this how am I supposed to carry on?

Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

In other words, I am the Brunette Who Keeps Her Head.

what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most

A real man doesn't waver in the face of what needs to be done," he said softly. "There are many acts of war. Many battles that take place off the field with no uniforms or offices in command. Sometimes, battle takes place on your kitchen floor.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.