Quotes About Resilience

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?" I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.

I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.

It's easy to hate the game when your losing.

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

The sun will rise again. The only uncertainty is whether or not we will rise to greet it. Alan Christensen's diary

Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter, precariously perched on a roller coaster. The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them. Beth Cardall's Diary

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

when faced with overwhelming loss and stress, a man must choose to live and find his own way through his broken heart.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as "the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

if you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.