Quotes about Resilience

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet

The obstacle is the way.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it.

The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.

I, too, was once like you: fatally hooked on life.

People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.

This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.