Quotes About Resilience

When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God.

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.

Whenever the long poles supporting their homes began to rot, they simply moved to a new location and built new homes.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

Proverò e riproverò. Non mi darò mai per vinto. Guarda laggiù, sulla brughiera. C'è un altro presagio. Lo terrò a mente. C'è sempre un altro arcobaleno.

La vita è piena di lavori duri e ci saranno sempre dei furbi pronti a imbrogliarmi. Be', sarò più duro dei duri e più furbo dei furbi... e farò quadrare i miei conti.

Success is not forever, and failure's not fatal.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

The bush is a home for martyrs.

Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.

In his mind's eye, though, he sees— —Taliban moving like scorpions across a similar landscape his own caravan blown to shit blood streaming from buddies Now I'm one of them He sights in again. No time for Lack of PTSD He only hopes that Gentle Ben Increase-the-Peace Ben is one of them, too, now. Now, Ben. Find your inner Taliban.

He became his own blues song, a Tom Waits loser, a Kerouac saint, a Springsteen hero under the lights of the American highway and the neon glow of the American strip. A fugitive, a sharecropper, a hobo, a cowboy who knows that he's running out of prairie but rides anyway because there's nothing left but to ride.

you do not avenge a murder by killing—you avenge it by living.

Life is trying to kill us," she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before you die.

He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.

Americans take their strength in victories, Mexicans' strength is in their ability to suffer loss.

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other. Chuy goes inside. Keller sits outside on a bench and waits. The words of the psalm come back to him— "Be still and know that I am God." There is nothing to do but be still.

Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—"If you were supposed to know, you'd know.

The old dictum is that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire

There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. —Carlos Santana "Maria Maria