Quotes About Resilience

redemptive beauty, I think. Despite her

Deep inside is a voice wanting to taunt her, to tell her she is undeserving of it, to not trust it because it won't last, good things never last. Or it tells her she will fuck up and lose everything. But she's gotten better at tuning that voice out.

Love does not have legs," he slowly read, his finger moving along. "It does not have arms. But it move mountains." He put the paper down at his side

one of the hardest things in life is fessing up to what you want most, because if you do that, and you don't get it, it's so hard to be without it.

For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.

I think it was Robert Frost who said that everything he had learned about life could be summed up in three words: it goes on

I don't know why I can't stop crying. Too much good news lately, I guess. Bad news I can handle. I expect bad news. I've dealt with bad news all my life. Good news makes me cry.

I would like to step into the body of a woman whose insides don't feel as though they have been spending time against the fine side of a cheese grater.

don't know why I can't stop crying. Too much good news lately, I guess. Bad news I can handle. I expect bad news. I've dealt with bad news all my life. Good news makes me cry.

Women do not leave situations like this: we push up our sleeves, lean in closer, and say, What do you need? Tell me what you need and by God I will do it. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.

Nothing will bring lovers closer together than people trying to keep them apart

love came in without knocking and stayed without your permission. And when hard times came between you and the one you loved, you didn't run away.

women of a certain age who still want to fight the good fight, as Gretchen sees it. She has

I'd learned enough about grieving to know that other ways of feeling would come back soon enough. But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.

They say that one of the reasons for tragedy is that you learn important lessons from it.

I also think you should take care of yourself. You can crack up a little when these things go on for so long. You've got to bring a healthy self in here. That will help him most. He needs to feel your strength. And you need to do what you have to keep it.

the truth is that all anyone can do is take each day as it comes. To see life as an imperfect offering and focus always on making the best of what we have at any given moment. And to have faith in…well, whatever we can have faith in.

He says the only way to know yourself is to challenge yourself - in a hard way, so that you're really scared. He says what you do in times like that is what you are.

You know, Arthur," his mother said, "in time, you will find that little bits of happiness will make their way inside you and stay there. One little thing, and then one thing more. And then you'll realize that you're okay. You'll be okay, son, I promise you. You'll never forget him and you'll never stop missing him. But you'll be okay. And for you to be okay doesn't take a single thing away from Frank.

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.

But for the outstanding fact of polio, my mother was remarkably healthy;

When he wrote down harebells, he told me that they looked delicate, but that they could grow between rocks.

offering of love against fear. I had done it myself, determinedly made cards for my mother thinking that she would then have