Quotes About Resilience

I lie here for a few moments, willing it to go away. I'd hoped that by moving back to London I could leave it behind, with no forwarding address. But now it's found me and it's not giving up without a fight. But neither am I. Summoning my courage, I throw back my duvet. Because if there's one thing I do know, it's that you must never give in to a bully. And The Fear is the very worst kind.

The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes. ELIZABETH GILBERT

You're not too old, it's not too late, and yes you can.

Nature teaches you to have patience and faith. Life's just a cycle, you know. Things might seem dead, but they always come back to life . . .

You want to be the one making the decisions. Sitting on the fence is one thing, but what happens when the fence is taken away from you? Do you jump off joyfully or fall crashing to the floor?

When things are at their worst, Scarlett, the only thing to do is find something to laugh about. It keeps you sane… and it stops your teeth chattering from fear.

I guess I let things get me down as far as a person can go, she thought with disgust, and her own scorn warmed her. I won't let it happen again, ever, no matter what comes. Once you get down all the way, the road can only go up.

During that year Scarlett had been so busy, had experienced such changes in her life, that she'd been able to block out the pain he had caused her. Now it tore her heart, and with the pain was a deep fear of Rhett's unpredictable power. She transformed them into rage. Rage was strengthening.

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

She was by herself whether she wanted to be or not, and no amount of brandy would make it any different.

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

When a person quietly reconciles himself to all the contradictions that life offers, and can comfortably ride out or flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both, but getting stuck in neither, then he has achieved freedom.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. It is best to bear what can't be altered. SENECA

The little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we meet, may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping stones to a noble character.

I think I've been broken for a long time. I've lived with this hole in my chest for so long I got used to it.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Those who suffer a defeat are often branded by history as lacking in talent, whereas it is frequently circumstances that are unfavourable to them.

but instead of focusing inwardly like a victim—What is going to happen to me?—the sergeant retained his warrior mindset and focused externally on stopping the threat.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

?nsan, tekrar yücelmesi için kendini yeni ba?tan in?a etmek zorundad?r. Ve bu yenile?meyi ?zd?rap çekmeden yapamaz. Çünkü o hem mermerdir, hem de heykeltra?. Hakiki biçimini yeniden kazanmak için, büyük çekiç darbelerini kendi maddesine indirerek k?v?lc?mlar ç?karacakt?r.

To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself withoutsuffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage,he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.

Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva