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Quotes About Resilience

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~ Agatha Christie
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
~ Martha Beck
Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.
~ Joanna Macy
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
~ Amy Winehouse
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
~ Tokugawa Ieyasu
It's only human to have low moments in life because if you don't, then you won't feel the high, exciting times.
~ Jessica Cox
I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
~ Tina Turner
No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.
~ Stan Lee
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
~ Cato the Elder
Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.
~ Ace Hood
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
~ Edmund Burke
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.
~ Pema Chodron
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
~ Philip K. Dick
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
~ Wendell Phillips
You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.
~ Tina Turner
Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.
~ Colleen Hoover
Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.
~ Tupac Shakur
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
~ Prem Rawat
Anonymity amongst the wreckage of the earth. This is what I sought. And a good pair of boots for when it got cold.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
E' così che la follia del mondo prova a impossessarti di te: penetrando dall'esterno, costringendoti a vivere nella sua realtà.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Apparently we'd been richer than we thought, to suffer such continual diminishment and still be alive.
~ Jeff Vandermeer