Quotes About Resilience

Now, don't get started on that. Remember what I said: There's no point in looking back.

All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.

TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!

He was glad to be alive. ... In fact, Edward Tulane was so happy to be back among the living that he did not even take umbrage at being referred to as it.

Kate DiCamillo

was important to me to hear how Littmus survived after losing everything he loved.

I know something that's in a cage," said Rob, pushing the words past the tightness in his throat. Willie May nodded her head, but she wasn't listening. She was looking past Rob, past the white sheet, past the laundry room, past the Kentucky Star. "Who don't?" she said finally. "Who don't know something in a cage?

Sometimes the pain in her heart made her feel too terrified to go on. Sometimes it made her want to drop to her knees.

Look at the pebbles in the bottom of the pool, Miss Emily, so round and smooth and shining. Yes, but where did they get that beautiful polish, that satin skin, that lovely shape, Rebecca? Not in the still pool lying on the sands. It was never there that their angles were rubbed off and their rough surfaces polished, but in the strife and warfare of running waters. They have jostled against other pebbles, dashed against sharp rocks, and now we look at them and call them beautiful.

To be alive makes up for everything; there ought to be fears in my heart, but there aren't; something stronger sweeps them out; something like a wind.

I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.

We must all learn the measure of our strength. Otherwise we exhaust ourselves striving for that which we can never gain.

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

I have been bitten by the snake too

You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh.

Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.

If we stay as we have been, then we will die, just as a pool dries up in the summer if there is no rain. We must change if we want to live. But we must also remain who we are and who the gods gifted us to be.

It is not in victory that you learn how strong you truly are.

The whole reason for telling the fairy tales is to awaken the heart. To help people believe that misfortune can be overcome and evil conquered.

and what do you think true love is? her father had asked her. 'Loving even when all hope is gone,' she had answered.

Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?

If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve

But it's better to loosen up as you go or you risk turning brittle.

You are made who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.