Quotes About Resilience

Days will get dark in this life. There will be good days and hard times. But be STILL and know that God is God.

Girlfriends have sight. Wives have vision. You don't marry for better or for better. What you manifest at your lowest is who you are at your highest. If you can't stand with this man in the bad, then why would he want to celebrate you in the good? Get that spirit of girlfriend up off you. Wives stick and stay and pray that man through until he realizes the God in him is so much greater than what the devil has whispered to him.

Rule 46 When There Is a Weak Point in Your Case, Don't Pretend that It Isn't a Weak Point Admit it, and show the factfinder how you still ought to succeed despite that weakness.

If it gets too bad, go. I'll understand." I won't.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

I'm not going anywhere, not without Chloe. Derek

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. Bully

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.

Derek lunged. He hit me in the shoulder and knocked me to the floor, landing on top of me. His body jerked, like he'd been hit with the spell, and I let out a yelp, struggling to get up, but he held me down, whispering I'm okay, it's okay until the words penetrated.

Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.

This is the first adventure I've survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I'd call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail's crawl home from Albany when snow hit."It's New York, people. It's winter. We get snow. If you aren't prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.

What gave it away? When she loaded me bound and gagged into the back of her truck? Or when she actually said. I'm ready to kill you and throw your body inn the swamp? Hey for a while there, it looked like you were going to talk your way out of it. I didn't want to interfere.

How long could we do this before you started bitching? Simon said as we turned down another street of apartment buildings. What? We've been walking for two days now, and you haven't complained once. It's damned annoying, you know. I looked at him. If you don't complain, then I can't complain. Not without sounding like a whiny little snot.

Just show him that I didn't need his apology, I guess. Show him that I was okay. Better than okay. I was happy, in spite of everything he'd done to me, and no, I didn't forgive him. God help me, I would not forgive him.

No life is easy. It's just a different kind of hard.

In the end, like any stray, I was conquered by the promise of continued food and shelter. Trust would take longer.

a blazing fire in an ice storm.

I could mentally lift the vision wholesale and stick it into the already overflowing "crazy shit I'll deal with later" box in my brain.

Sometimes, wanting to impress is what keeps us moving when all we really want to do is curl up in a fetal position and whimper.

I was never getting my old life back, and i didn't care. I was happy