Quotes About Resilience

This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they're so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.

Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

I don't know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.

Sometimes that's all you need. To know it's not broken. To know you're still whole and that you'll heal.

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

True love, the good, beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it manages to overlook some pieces of its story. It overlooks what he can't give you or how she failed you or what mistakes he made when he was struggling. It stays steady at its center. It evolves, through drought and storm. It grows. It survives.

It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word...

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.

Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person

She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that.

It's hard to be all that you can be on carrot sticks and criticism.

We try to hold a storm in our own fist but we are not that strong.

Turned up or turned down, the feeling is permanent. She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.