Quotes About Resilience

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

In the grim blasted regions where the soil had failed or the factories were shut down, whole congregations would drift through the gates

Things were slipping on me — oranges at first — then everything.

Ain't 'cha gonna run? she asked. No, he said, shoving the sheet away. I'm gonna fly.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

I suppose if alcohol had been available to me that November, I would have become a drunk. As it was, the only thing I could lose my miserable self in was books.

Bridge to Terabithia takes us by the hand and leads us into a room that we have never entered before. After we read this story, we cannot unknow what we now know. We are devastated, emotionally rent. But still: we feel held, loved, seen. Someone trusted us enough to tell us the truth; and because of that, the room is golden, brimful of light.

Katherine Paterson

Sometimes you have to favor your heel, even if it means you're hurting your toe.

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

He may not have been born with guts, but he did not have to die without them.

One of the novels that was hardest for me to write had to deal with the horrible slaughter of war. I almost didn't finish Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom for just that reason.

For the first few seconds, Jess kicked and struggled against the strong arms. Then Jess gave himself over the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from the corner of his brain. - Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson

Then the Calm kept going. And I realized that my body, mind, and soul needed this time to integrate some of the enormous changes that were going on. I started to appreciate Calm. These last few weeks I feel like I'm getting my spark back.

She was his; he was hers. The world could fall apart, and they'd still be one.

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I was stolen from my family by Navajo raiders when I was fourteen, and taken in by a Navajo family who had lost a daughter of their own." Josefina

I stayed with the Navajo for several years. I had no idea how to get home! But one day another captured New Mexican arrived. He was a boy, just twelve or so, but he told me he knew how to get back to the nearest town. He was determined to run away, and when the time came, I—I ran with him.

Then put this behind you. You don't have to change who you are because of one mistake. You only have to make sure you don't repeat it.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

This is another day, O Lord... If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.