Quote

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Elizabeth Edwards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
Attorneys In The United States
Lawyer
Teacher
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
Resilience
Accepting
Less
Reality
Even
Good

More quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

Image
I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Maybe we all change over time.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
You don't have to be perfect you just have to be open.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
Elizabeth Edwards
Image
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
Elizabeth Edwards