Quotes About Resilience

He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he'd die himself, of the sorrow.

She believes that her last chance for love just died, and her last chance was her first love, and there is something about that that is awfully hard to bear. Think about it. To know you're at the end of hoping for love and to realize that something else will have to do, if you're going to have any reason to go on.

Healing hurts, but hurting heals.

We're all trapped in a body with limitations, even the most able-bodied among us! And we're all guided by minds with limitations of their own. You want to know my philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same.

Yes, life is a minefield at any age. Sometimes we feel pretty certain that we know what's coming. But really, we never do. We just walk on. We have to. If we are smart we count our blessings between the darker surprises.

Life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief. People forget about the value of adversity.

You know what? That woman's pain being greater than yours doesn't make your pain any less. She deserves the best we can offer, and so do you. Now roll over and hike up your johnnie.

I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was exactly the right word to describe it. It was John's life that was over, not mine.

Sometimes, just when you think you're going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There's only so much room in a human heart. Thank God. The

His mother said, Oh, it's miserable to love, Johnny, I'm sorry to tell you so. Miserable for me, anyway, because I feel it too hard. And what happens then? What do you think? You go from the lovely direct to the pain - you can't help it.

Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that's what it is, one after the other.

The heart is a small muscle with tremendous strength;

Men were ever men.

Sometimes, just when you think you're going to die from pain, rage steps in to save you. There's only so much room in a human heart.

little disappointments seem like paper cuts; they can bother you more than the big things do.

This is the thing about strong people: you can mostly be scared of them but sometimes the way they are makes you feel safe.

Life has its way, and it seems to me now that the object might only be to learn how to be graceful, to understand the value of a deep kind of acceptance.

The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace

I learned a lot about medicine in those years, but I learned more about human nature. I learned about bravery and resilience, about the many forms of grief, and especially about the importance of the little things in one's life. I've said many times that nursing taught me the value of the "little" things that individuate and define our lives—the things that ultimately make it worth living.

Elizabeth Berg

I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying is done, you see how the end is the beginning.