Quotes About Resilience

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

As events beyond my control unfold. I go within to find peace."

No one knows while experiencing their darkest hour that some day they may use that very experience to illuminate the ways for others. Nothing is ever wasted

On rare occasion we are granted the gift of seeing how far we have come; just how much we have healed and how really free we are. Never again will we underestimate our ability to rise.

Thank you to all the people who have triggered my issues. You have helped me clarify what they are, start the healing process and ultimately become a better person.

The energy of love is indestructible

The practice of gratitude can soften a difficult situation

We don't always get what we want, but often something better happens and we become the person we always wanted to be.

Your heart will always open again; if you let it.

So it is to be another Christmas, then, and another New Year's on my own. Well, it is all right. I have grown used to it, have come almost to prefer it. Those days for most adults, it is generally acknowledged, and perhaps for all but the fewest children are so grim. Along with birthdays and of course Thanksgiving, only worse. Why observe them, then, unless one is for the sake of the children, or the office, or someone else's sake, obliged to. Well, no reason.

Wat moesten we beginnen met deze zombie, die ons zo tergend herinnerde aan de Loes die we hadden verloren en die daardoor zwakkelingen van ons maakte, vervuld van heimwee en gemis? Ze was het aan ons verplicht om weer zichzelf te worden, zo niet goedschiks, dan maar kwaadschiks.

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

Everyone needs faith: faith that even though the world is full of evil, a suitor will come and kiss us awake; faith that the girl will escape the tower, the big bad wolf will die, and even those poisoned by malevolence can be reborn, as innocent as purity itself.

She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. "When you are ready to inhabit a new skin," she said, "we will be waiting for you.

Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope?

It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.

This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.

and every time she says the word, it breaks her heart into pieces that she has to pick up in her hands and shove back in her chest.

The look in her eyes is of a person who drank from the end of a gun barrel and found it delicious.

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

guess?" Naomi sank into a chair. "Jerome," she

The world is full of heartache," the detective said. Naomi could see the sadness he bore, too. "You got to carve out some happiness for yourself. Otherwise it will take you down.

Now when those dark times happen, I curl into a ball on my cot and make a cape with my blanket. I remind myself I am not dust, but I should be. I tell myself I am made of the same cells as life itself even if I am a mistake.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.