Quotes About Resilience

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

Nobody could fathom the suffering the troubles had brought people, and all the terrible things that had happened.

Everything we suffer has been suffered before, everything that gives us joy has been enjoyed before. Nothing is new: but that doesn't make it any easier to suffer.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.

knowing (in her gone-ness that will always be part of me) that she would wish me to go ahead and find out what this is. I believe our hearts will tell us how to do this. P

am someone who needs to adjust to everything.

I can't stop for grief, which is surely why I am irritated.

Anybody who can get through March without breaking a glass, a friendship, a secret, a promise, or somebody's nose is either a saint or on vacation in Florida.

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

It's not the load you carry but how you carry it.

I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.

People passed, spoke and waved with no idea that innocence had sloughed from my body and lay in a heap at my feet.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.