Quotes About Resilience

But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.

All Mrs. B's furniture was missing limbs or spines or cushions—bricks and broomsticks were busy being everything's crutch—but the room looked beautiful anyhow. Especially if you squinted some.

Once you harden, the arteries do.

Never take no for the anwser when reaching for your dreams.

Cristo vino y dijo: Volved bien por mal. Dijo más: "No os resistáis al mal que os quieran hacer; "sí os hieren en una mejilla presentadles la otra".

Se os sofrimentos da vida parecem longos, que seria se a ele se juntasse a lembrança do passado?

pois é preciso mais coragem para vencer a si mesmo do que para vencer aos outros.

Where there is love there is life; where there is life there is hope.

Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you only need a dram of courage. To face life you need a good deal more.

They were blown off my feet when the South Tower collapsed

Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don't feel strong enough to handle it.

Because when you feel physically and mentally low, molehills become mountains, slight set-backs seem like disasters, and the smallest problem tends to be the final straw to break the camel's back.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.