#resilience

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#resilience #spite #forgiveness

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#resilience #ruins #truth #life

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me. ↗

— Paula McLain

#resilience #toughness #life

She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her. ↗

— W.P. Kinsella

#curve-ball #foul #resilience #life

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#creates #depressed #every #gold #gone

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. ↗

— Brad Henry

#fabric #grow #into #obstacle #oklahoma

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#make #matter #matters #miserable #over

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience. ↗

— Michael Franti

#building #change #climate #climate change #help

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #love #loving #perfect #place