Quotes About Resilience

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense.

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. -- By The Sea

the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed

Soy optimista: los gobiernos crecientemente desastrosos que he visto desde que tengo uso de razón -escribió [Castillo] en 1982 en respuesta a una pregunta acerca de si vivía de la literatura-, me han hecho entender a Nietzsche: lo que no me mata me hace fuerte. Y si el dolor y la desgracia capaz de soportar un hombre son la medida de su fuerza, mi pueblo y yo somos invulnerables.

I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die." "I am ready to die." Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. "But I refuse to lose." ~Bayaz and Glokta

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Naked flights of art unshackled and incandescent songs of poetry undiluted return to the soul what hate, ignorance, fear, and violence steal from the heart.

We knew how to combine our strengths in order to overcome our weaknesses, and how to live off faith when nothing else was available.

In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.

It's not just a matter of having lost the land and the wealth that came with it. It's a matter of the fact that we lost a way of life that we should have been able to pass on to our children and to their children, but which we can't because of what was taken from us. (Harris Neck, Georgia native Wilson Moran as quoted by Aberjhani in The American Poet Who Went Home Again)

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.