Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes you just have to shake the devil off you, whatever that devil is. Even if you don't feel like living for yourself, you have to start living for your child, for your children

God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live," the novelist and essayist Joan Didion famously wrote. We also tell ourselves stories in order not to die.

They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong."— 'Breath, Eyes, Memory

I felt broken at the end of the meeting, but a little closer to being free.

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside us in the absence of an empathetic witness. —Peter Levine, The Unspoken Voice

the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame.

They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong." — 'Breath, Eyes, Memory', Edwidge Danticat

the key to survival is the ability of the "host" to recognize and limit the invasiveness of its viral or malignant components.

Sabotage is not merely something to be avoided or wished away; instead, it comes with the territory of leading, whether the "territory" is a family or an organization

All could see the holly now bristling green. From every cut and wound and point from which a parted limb had gone, a hundred prickly, scorning tongues.

That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out.

we take our victories where we find them, and accept our defeats with grace and patience.

But the trouble with simulations is that they put up with far too much shit.

there's a strength in not being strong.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns, which arrived with the promptness and regularity of mail coaches.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns

But a constant, low-level background of crime may help a society become more robust, more resilient.

Sometimes you just have to hold on, to keep doing what you're doing, to have faith that things are going to get better. It's how we survive. There've been a million bottlenecks in history where things would have turned out much worse if we'd all just given up and accepted the inevitable. Some of those bottlenecks would have ended us if a few irrational, doggedly optimistic souls hadn't clung to a thread of hope

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.

This Fura was different. This Fura was harder and scowlier and knew what needed to be done. This one could turn her back on her own dying father, or watch a blinded man whimper in pain and not give one cold cuss. This one could cut her own hand off if it helped. This one didn't care what people thought of Fura. And even as I cursed those tin fingers, which wouldn't yet do a tenth of what I wanted from them, I knew which Fura I liked the best.

Few of us get the things we deserve,' Ndege said, 'but we make the best of what we're given.

Generally it's best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it's time to start digging your way out.