Quotes about Resilience

I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

Sometimes life is like that...Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

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.