Quotes About Resilience

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

I was born in a halfway house on a one-way street.

In this torment, my mother learned not to hold onto the things she loved because then no one could take them away from her.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

Your critics want you to be as unhappy, unfulfilled and unimportant as they are. Let your happiness eat them up from inside

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

know you think I'm taking the piss but I am the piss and I've not been taken anywhere. I go where I want. I am the freedom piss in the toilet of oblivion flushing myself away into the sewer pipe of broken dreams.

I was pretty sick for a couple of weeks--too sick for the Mrs. to give me the news. And it's a wonder I didn't

All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.

And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced—mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes—would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?

Fucked up is the universal condition of man. We were crossing to Oregon behind a cranky team of mules—the very definition, the apotheosis, the pinnacle, of fucked up. I woke in the morning to harness mules, fucked up, obsessed all day on making more miles, fucked up, and collapsed onto my squalid wagon matteess every night, fucked up. I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

Okay, son. All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.