Quotes About Resilience

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker)

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.

Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?

...but ready or not,life goes on.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don't give up hope.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

When life gets blurry, adjust your focus.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

Emotions are wild horses. It is not explanations that carry us forward, but our will to go on.

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.