I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world...
I feel I'm at the end of something — everything is going to be different — and terrible.That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave.There is one that will drown me.
(n.) Alt. of Resiliency
If you can dream and not make dreams your master
In the months following James' death, on thought had returned time and again as she passed others in the street. What secrets did these people hold? What had they endured? She wondered how many people...
Inside, the midwife was trying to get Socorro to open her mouth wide and let the pain come out. Open your mouth, said Angelina, massaging Socorro's neck and shoulders, and let out what you feel. Don't...
It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and en...
It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks...
Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a...
Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.
Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.
Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil, whose experiences are wonderfully summarized by Timothy Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way . Le Gentil set off from France a year ahead of time to observ...
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will...
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may tread me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk...
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