Quotes About Resilience

do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men

You do not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.

Jeremiah Curtin

When we start to look at struggle as an opportunity to grow, we start to walk in the midst of struggle with a smile on our face. If you can do this, you are becoming awakened.

I know the journey seems so long You feel you're walking on your own But there has never been a step Where you've walked out all alone Troubled soul don't lose your heart Cause joy and peace he brings And the beauty that's in store Outweighs the hurt of life's sting

I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

Life is hard, but God is good.

Mix an anorexic body with a heart made of pure fire and you are going to go with a savagery that's hard to explain.

The next day I called my neighbouring farmers to say I was going to have a coronary, and they all had the same piece of advice. I had to accept whatever happens, because that's farming. They also said I had to be patient, which is not possible. I can't be patient. It's not in my DNA. It's a bit like telling Nicholas Witchell he has to be a Moroccan cage fighter.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

God grant that this war not last as long as we are able to endure it

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Michael Ryan seemed a very nice chap to me. He was pleasant enough, but he appeared to be someone who wasn't getting to grips with life.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand. "Sand" might be a loose metaphor for "point where I'm almost dead and filled with the kind of regret you have to actively forget in order to continue on as a human being.

Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?

Is that where we're at? Finding joy in the prospect of slightly diminished atrocities?

Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand.

Instead I saw a fresh colostomy bag hanging from the side of his belly, "SHIT HAPPENS" written on the plastic in black felt-tip.

It made me feel that bad things could happen but they didn't have to stay bad. Sometimes they could get better, with a bit of help.

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary. Now God hath bound thy trouble upon thee by His special providence, and with a design to try thee, and with purposes to reward and crown thee. These cords thou canst not break, and therefore lie thou down gently, and suffer the hand of God to do what He pleases.