Quotes About Resilience

If stubbornness were water, I could sail on you to the ends of the earth.

The vicar likes to talk about the great wall that exists in all of us, the end place at which each of us will say 'That is as far as I shall go.' He is very interested in how those walls are formed.

I appreciate your courage in coming in here like this. Truly. I expected some ridiculous, theatrical caper, and instead you're taking what's coming to you like a man.

Lonesome is habit," she said with a shrug. "One that can be broken.

The first mission is finished with no casualties beyond Nat's cracked rib and the blood still caked in Mary Alice's hair.

but I have clawed back some shreds of decency and dignity and I will not have them taken from me again.

You have suffered a terrible blow, but you shall recover. You are young and strong, and you will feel this pain acutely because as yet in your life you have not suffered much. But you must believe me when I tell you that this will be blunted, the edge will not cut so deep after a while. You will enjoy life again, and you will laugh and love and weep for others.

If you mean to abuse me, let me finish my whiskey first.

Anyone can get lucky," he said coldly. "And I suspect your continued survival owes itself to a combination of good fortune and sheer bloody-mindedness. You are too stubborn to die.

He must have broken dozens of hearts in his day, for even now he reminded me of nothing so much as a magnificently grizzled old lion. He might be winding down, but life was not yet finished with him.

There is always a pony,

They look good but I was sick as a dog for eight months and my nipples are still numb." "You're here," I reminded her. "I'm here." She edged nearer, bumping my shoulder with her own. "The question is, for how long?

Some things are purified and strengthened by trial, others destroyed.

The desert doesn't care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.

It's scary, but I won't let fear stop me.

I know it's hard when you can't fix what's wrong for those you love. In those times, you have to be there as support to help them make it through.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

Just because it turned out bad, doesn't mean it wasn't meant.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.