Quotes About Resilience

As we passed by on the stony causeway, women looked up at us from the fields, their faces furrowed with all known distresses. By their sides, lambs skipped in gaiety and innocence, and goats skipped in gaiety but without innocence, and at their feet the cyclamens shone mauve; the beasts and flowers seemed fortunate because they are not human, as those who have passed within the breath of a plague and have escaped it.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt: "No one on the face of this earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

Quando Omni Flunkus Mortati

Keep your stick on the Ice

I left home because I was hungry.

When you feel the stitches holding the illusion of yourself together begin to stretch and pop, and you can't sew fast enough to keep the stuffing in.

I've never let myself get scared off anything in my life and I wasn't gonna start now. You back down once, there's no telling when it'll stop. You let yourself get scared and it never goes away. It fucks up your judgments.

Reed Farrel Coleman

Closure is overrated. Closure doesn't exist.

In his years as a street cop, homicide detective, and police chief, Jesse thought he had learned his lesson about hope. He knew better than most just how little purchase hope ever really has. -Jesse Stone

The problem with life was that even if you didn't go looking for trouble, trouble sometimes came looking for you.

this is a world of sorrows and misfortunes but the emeralds of hopes and efforts are still glittering

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

People change when the pain associated with the status quo is greater than the pain associated with the change.

Leaders secure in their call will charge hell with a water pistol.

Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.

I could do worse than become my own grandma, or anyone of the strong women who raised us. Our strengths emerged from theirs; we build on their heritage and transform their resilience and competence into our own.

Alex glanced at Sam and David, who looked soberly back at him. "Okay guys? Remember your training: 'A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must desire life like water and drink death like wine.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Just because you expect something doesn't make it any easier to bear.