Quotes about Resilience

Sometimes love is hard. The more you practice loving yourself, it becomes second nature. Love yourself no matter what."

As a heterosexual ballet dancer, you develop a thick skin.

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.

Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

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George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.