Quotes about Resilience

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.

The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it. Alan Christensen's diary

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't' feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding.