Quotes About Resilience

His hands, swinging curve-fingered at his sides, looked like they were molded of brown clay by a sculptor who thought big and liked veins. His hair was brown and dry and dead, blowing around his head like a poor toupee about to fly loose. His face was a chipped chunk of concrete, with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth was a quick stroke, bloodless. His suit coat fluttered behind him, and his arms swung easily as he walked.

People get used to everything but being dead.

For you, that tree is dead.

When a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told him to go to hell.

And that is how he would describe courage: pretending to be brave. Fearlessness is stupidity. Courage is not letting the fear defeat you.

Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It's learning to overcome it.

Even after emerging from prison and becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president, he continued

Unseen wounds are very painful, even more painful than the wounds you can see." It was clear to me that he was talking about himself too.

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

WISDOM ISN'T ABOUT NOT MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING TO ESCAPE AFTERWARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTACT.

This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are—the result of everything that has happened. It all just is.

Wisdom isn't about not making mistakes, but about learning to escape afterwards with our dignity and sanity intact.

If you want to, you can let go of any feelings of resentment, of regret, of anger. You can accept that you are a fabulous human being because of all the bad things that have happened to you, not in spite of them. What is done is done, and you need to just get on with your life.

So do yourself a favour. Go away and hide somewhere while you lick your wounds. Enjoy your friends and your family, and wait until you've recovered a bit before you start looking for a new partner. And when you do, try to pick someone whose scars are relatively well-healed too – because of course this works the other way round as well. That way you can both see each other as you really are, and start your relationship the way you want to continue it.

Richard Townshend Bickers

Sometimes when things get taken away from you it feels like there's a hole at your centre where you can feel the wind blow through, that's sure.

I saw kids die of tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia and broken hearts at St. Jerome's.

Can you stand?" Waabooz asked. "Yes," Buffalo said. "Why?" "If you stand there calmly you won't sink any farther and we can work together to get you out of there." "Are you certain?" Buffalo asked. "I feel the bog pull at me even now." "I am not certain," Waabooz said. "But Trust does not require certainty.

I've come to understand that the pain of a wound or a loss is over as it happens. What follows is the pain of getting well.

They scooped out our insides, Saul. We are not responsible for that. We are not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are," Fred said. LBut our healing - that's up to us.

Ils ont refusé de me laisser être juste un hockeyeur. Pour eux, je serais toujours un indien.

The change that comes our way will come in many forms. In sights that are mysterious to our eyes, in sounds that are grating on our ears, in ways of thinking that will crash like thunder in our hearts and minds. But we must learn to ride each one of these horses of change. It is what the future asks of us and our survival depends on it.

Beggary. It's not the sole

The change that comes our way will come in many forms. In sights that are mysterious to our eyes, in sounds that are grating on our ears, in ways of thinking that will crash like thunder in our hearts and minds. But we must learn to ride each one of these horses of change. It is what the future asks of us and our survival depends on it. That is the spirit teaching of the Horse.