Quotes About Resilience

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.

I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

I always like to write something that will paint a cynical picture, but provide hope at the same time; I like to do that with my writing, even in the worst of times.

My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.

You will get cynicism, and the only way to break through is keep showing people and take actions.

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

Daddy was never ruthless but he was tough.

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

We got such abuse on a daily basis. They were trying to harden us to the reality of the rock'n'roll world but how could we possibly know this wasn't the way it was supposed to be?

The learning curve, and the things that you have to adapt to on a daily basis in the UFC, is pretty crazy. It's a huge burden for anybody to have: not just the fighting itself but learning how to deal with the other responsibilities.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.

I never did think I had brain damage.

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate.

I'm not here to take damage. I don't want to not be able to talk. Every single time I fight, I know that... this could be the last time that you're able to do this, the last time you're able to talk.

People have said I have brain damage, but I've passed all of my physicals, all of my medicals. They've checked my head so many times it's crazy.

To say that losing your pancreas is a sad thing is not an overstatement. They had to take my pancreas away, my duodenum, and it's damaged for ever.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

It's no good playing through pain if you're damaging yourself.