Quotes About Resilience

I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

It's not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

There is more to life than surviving.

Oh yeah, I'm mentally screwed up for life. But I look good.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.