Quotes About Resilience

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

I don't think you fully get away from something like the years of depression that I went through.

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

I dealt with depression for my whole life. That's not something that was caused by being trans.

I was able to battle back through depression.

Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

I went through an extreme depression.

I did two years of walking the street and soul-searching. During that time I lived off $37.50 a week - that was $2.50 a week more than my Dad made during the Depression.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

Definitely, there's a lot of strength in depth in my division.

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

People abandon you because they can't handle the depth and complexity of your experience, and that is ultimately a gift. It shows you what is important, who is important, and who is really, truly in your corner.

I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.