Quotes About Resilience

I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Norman Bates will never die...

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

It is better to manage changes skillfully than to just let life happen to you.

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.