Quotes About Resilience

He knows that when you snap a mast it's time to get a set of oars or learn how to breathe underwater. Rely on one thing too long and when it disappears and you have nothing–well, that's just bad planning. It's embarrassing, to think it could never happen. It happens.

His hands keep turning into birds, and his hands keep flying away from him. Eventually the birds must land.

I said it severely and slept through all my appointments. I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. I'd rather quit. I'd rather be sad. It's too much work.

People get hurt here. People fall down and stay down and I don't like the way the song goes.

You swallow a bottle of sleeping pills but they don't work.

This is the place, you say to yourself, this is the place where everything starts to begin, the wounds reveal a thicker skin and suddenly there is no floor.

You were burned, you were about to burn, you're still on fire.

we laugh and it pits the world against us, we laugh, and we've got nothing left to lose

I try, I do. I try and try. A happy ending?

A stone on the path means the tea's not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.

Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated cities at the center of me, and here is the center of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we can drink from, but I can't go through with it. I just don't want to die anymore.

Every story has its chapter in the desert, the long slide from kingdom to kingdom through the wilderness, where you learn things, where you're left to your own devices.

People fall down and stay down

and they're trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.

There is rarely any joy in a frictionless space, so find your inner viscosity.

as if he's trying to tell you that there is some sort of shining star now buried deep inside you and he has to dig it out with a knife.

Tell me we'll never get used to it.

Take the light inside you like a blessing, like a knee in the chest, holding onto it and not letting go. Now let it go.

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with

I put on my best shirt because the painting looked so bad. Color bleeds, so make it work for you. Gravity pulls, so make it work for you. Rubbing your feet at night or clutching your stomach in the morning. It was illegible - no single line of sight, too many angles of approach, smoke in the distance. It made no sense. When you have nothing to say, set something on fire. A blurry landscape is useless.

We've been driving all night. We've been driving a long time. We want to stop. We can't.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

It's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers.

Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?