Quotes About Resilience

What should never be forgotten is this: 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.

Love was such a delicate thing, requiring tissue-paper touch and the safest place, yet there it was out in the real world, where it got battered by storms of ill will and bad circumstances and demons of your own or of other people. Love didn't stand a chance.

When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts.

Each story, good and bad, short or long--from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness--they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

Hope was a beacon but it also had the strength of a bully.

Sometimes, humans must also attempt to come back to life.

It's okay. She can handle being a disappointment. She can handle a lot of things.

When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts. Wait for them. Have some faith they'll arrive. This is also precisely the point: the hanging on. The waiting, the faith.

Courage, traveler. Weird. It's coming from inside her. Hold your little map and shout to the darkness, it says. Shout this: You are nothing, darkness, against something as old as love. Shout: I will walk right through you, darkness, because I am, and I will be. This boldness-she's felt it before. In the truck, when she first saw Billy. No, before that, when she was brave, so brave, and brought Anna to the shore. This is how you save yourself?

...but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs.

Every morning you are reborn, and prove it worthwhile.

I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.

Stop thinking about the easy way out, There's no need to go and blow the candle outBecause you're not done, You're far too young.

Failure is not an option

Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

Fight for your life, it's the only one you've go

No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars...

Bitterness leads to brokenness in spirit.

I will not let triggers, flashbacks, nightmares control my emotions.I will not let those triedto destroy me win this war.I have awakened and I willfind peace with myself.

She who heals herself, heals others.

Hope is the first step to healing

Vulnerability is what heals us.