Quotes About Resilience

That's where you're wrong. When a tidal wave washes out the luau, you surf it and look for land.

Maybe I'll live long enough to find out. The way the day is going, though, I'll be lucky to make it through the appetizer course.

And if I do live, I don't know if my body is ever going to be right again. I mean, even if I figure out what Ludovico's Ellicit is and get cured, I might look like Freddy Krueger's foreskin forever.

When you're drowning in Hell, even a cement life jacket can look good.

Fuck my old self. My old self got his life stolen by morons and the person he cared about most killed. If I start turning into that asshole again, I'll peel these scars off myself and put a shotgun to my forehead.

How could she explain all my scars? "His mom swaddled him in burlap and razor wire when he was a baby . . .

She hands me back the bottle. The stuff we're drinking is vile. Greasy and fishy, but even flounder-flavored turpentine will taste good when it's the only drink in town.

What happened to your face?" she says. She pulls down my shirt a few inches. Spots more scars. "And the rest of you." "Never follow a foul ball into a wood chipper," I say. "We didn't even win the game.

I guess, if someone was really kicking your ass, you'd want them to be special. I mean, I'd rather have Batman kick my ass than Mickey Mouse any day.

Maybe I should have kept my rock. At least I wouldn't look quite so much like a deer caught in the headlights. No. I'd look like a deer with a rock. Forget it. We

As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.

Be a rock, James. Otherwise, you'll lose everything.

Sometimes annoyance will keep you going when booze and fear and hope are as dead as the Big Bopper.

Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.

How many things do we have control over in our life? Just about zero, right? But that doesn't stop us from trying to control everything. And this is a major source of tension and stress.

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head but once there, there was no shifting it.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

We can change the way that we think about external events, even where we cannot change them. And we can do something more. We can intelligently change our exposure to events that make us either happy or unhappy.

That's actually a very liberating expectation, expecting to fail," he has said.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.