Quotes About Resilience

Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.

he needed a crocodile sample to get out. Damned if he cared if it was some mutant crocodile that ran around on its back feet fighting tigers, he was going home.

They owned a pickup truck that, when on the road, looked like it had risen from a junkyard of its own volition and might have to be shot in the head to be killed.

Things should look right, Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary

Don't keep fighting battles that are already lost.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought. It feels as if someone has taken his head and shaken it. Words are turning to mush and he can see no plausible way of getting through this. Don't fall apart, he tells himself, not here, not now. Hold it together.

You were laughing at where I work." "So? You do!" "Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity, you're just laughing in my face!

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

Okay then, smile and...

But Dexter blinked hard, shook his head then nudged her hand with his. 'So what I thought we'd do for the next couple of days is, you can show me the sights, and I'll just mope about and make stupid remarks.' She smiled and nudged his hand back. 'It's hardly surprising what you've been through, are going through,' and she covered his hand with her own.

grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost. Anyway, we got through it somehow.

You can't see it at the moment, 'cause all these things have just gone wrong, and you're nervous and angry about things you can't control and which aren't your fault. But if you … hang on, Charlie. I don't know. I just think there's something inside you and I love it...

The great virtue of defeat, once accepted, is that it at least allows one to rest.

That line again. For Ian, a joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hands like a cheap umbrella.

Don't they appreciate how hard it is, staying decent, keeping your head on straight when so much is happening to you and your life is so full and eventfull?

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

Spending your time imagining what would have been if you could have changed some little thing, some little decision in your life, is counterproductive and leaves you unhappy. Think about how you can improve for the future, but don't waste your present thinking about how you could have changed the past

The world's the hardest metal there is. You have to hammer it into the shape you want and often it'll break your hand just to try, but if you're the one holding the hammer, you've got a simple choice: to hammer or give up. It's better to let the hammer fall. You never know what might be waiting for you in the steel.