Quotes About Resilience

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return."

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

Out of the wreck I rise.

Then welcome each rebuffThat turns earth's smoothness rough,Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!Be our joys three parts pain!Strive, and hold cheap the strain;Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,And baffled, get up and begin again.

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,The heroes of old,Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrearsOf pain, darkness, and cold.