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Quotes About Resilience

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
~ Rick Warren
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
~ Rick Warren
Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up…Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break." Ecclesiastes 4:9 (TEV)
~ Rick Warren
no solo desea que tengas éxito, sino también obra de manera activa en cada revés para ayudarte a alcanzarlo.
~ Rick Warren
Las personas pueden rechazar nuestro amor y nuestro mensaje, pero no pueden hacer nada contra nuestras oraciones.
~ Rick Warren
Life's random," he said. "The best you can do is pick up the pieces.
~ Kate Atkinson
When everything else has gone, love still remains," Dr. Hunter said. "Totally," Reggie said. But what good did it do you? None at all.
~ Kate Atkinson
Survival trumped memory.
~ Kate Atkinson
Live your life, Louise," Patrick said, "don't endure it.
~ Kate Atkinson
You are an old soul," he said. "It can't be easy. But your life is still ahead of you. It must be lived.
~ Kate Atkinson
Part of him died during the war. This was just the rest of him catching up," and she put her finger to the corner of her eye and dabbed at a trace of moisture there—a tear would have been too generous a description.
~ Kate Atkinson
Some might count sheep. Teddy counted the towns and cities he had tried to destroy, that had tried to destroy him. Perhaps they had succeeded.
~ Kate Atkinson
It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.
~ Kate Atkinson
her. It was a cruel thing, trying to sprout and find the light of day. It was truth. She wasn't sure that she wanted it.
~ Kate Atkinson
Sylvie considered that children should be toughened up early, the better to take the blows in later life.
~ Kate Atkinson
And when all else is gone, Art remains.
~ Kate Atkinson
You're trying to shore up a civilization that's in its death throes," Hugh said, as casually as if he were remarking on the weather. "There's really no point.
~ Kate Atkinson
I don't understand." "Well, when you arrived at St. George's you wouldn't stop screaming. They thought something terrible must have happened to you." "This isn't St. George's, is it?" "No," he said kindly. "This is a private clinic. Rest, good food and so on. They have lovely gardens. I always think a lovely garden helps, don't you?
~ Kate Atkinson
Time did not heal—it merely rubbed at the wound, slowly and relentlessly.
~ Kate Atkinson
Love of fate?' 'It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.
~ Kate Atkinson
She placed a protective hand on her bag. It contained two envelopes stuffed with twenties -- five thousand pounds in all -- that she'd just removed from her account at Yorkshire Bank. She would like to see someone trying to snatch it from her -- she was looking forward to beating them to a pulp with her bare hands. No point in having weight, Tracy reasoned, if you weren't prepared to throw it around.
~ Kate Atkinson
It was then that Teddy realised that they were not so much warriors as sacrifices for the greater good. Birds thrown against a wall, in the hope that eventually, if there were enough birds, they would break that wall.
~ Kate Atkinson
Rosemary was trying her best to retain good government in this family, against all the odds and without any help from a husband, for whom the quotidian demands of meals and housework and child care were meaningless
~ Kate Atkinson
They had stepped into marriage in a frail barque that had long ago entered the doldrums and floundered in the deep. Miss Kelling, on the other hand, looked like someone who would steer a steady course. He had entangled his mind horribly in seafaring imagery, there seemed no way out of it except to abandon ship.
~ Kate Atkinson