Quotes About Resilience

Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

You know, my world may look like a pile of shit, but at least I sometimes get to sit on top of it

They were prepared physically and mentally for war. They'd all had at least nine lives, and had the burns, the dents, the bullet holes and the knife wounds to prove it.

We certainly wouldn't practise carrying it now: that would be a bit like practising being wet, cold and hungry, which wouldn't achieve anything.

Just 'cause you're black folks think you lack,They laugh at you and scorn you too,What did I do to be so black and blue?

Walk in the dark, live in the light.

Narnok rolled his shoulders and tilted his head left, then right, with terrifying cracks of released tension. The two men at his feet were groaning at different pitches, and Narnok stepped over them, testing the weight of the bar and muttering, "Not as good as the axe, but it'll do." He looked up. And grinned. "What's it to be, then? Two at a time or all six at once?

don't give no rabbit's fart what race or type of creature you are; if we'd been invaded by queer, tap-dancing dragons wearing top-hats and breathing cabbage fire, they'd still come here for their centre of command.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Dad, I'm not sure if I'm going to beat cancer, but I promise you, I'll never let cancer beat me

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.

Fear defies logic. Information only goes so far. Even when armed with all the reasons why we should not be afraid, the fear remains.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Your regrets are only part of your story. They don't have to be the story. Your past should remind you. It doesn't have to define you.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Podían haberlo olvidado, solo que él no permitió que lo olvidaran.

Hay que ser muy valiente para vivir con miedo. Contra lo que se cree comúnmente, no es siempre el miedo asunto de cobardes. Para vivir muerto de miedo, hace falta, en efecto, muchísimo valor.

CAÍDA Y me vuelvo a caer desde mí mismo al vacío, a la nada. ¡Qué pirueta! ¿Desciendo o vuelo? No lo sé. Recibo el golpe de rigor, y me incorporo. Me toco para ver si hubo gran daño, mas no me encuentro. Mi cuerpo ¿dónde está? Me duele sólo el alma. Nada grave.

I don't have a lot of words, but I have a lot of faith. I know the road feels low and winding, and we seem to need the pain to cut to the core, to emerge from the sleepwalk of despair and feel through the numbness of disconnect and indifference. But if we let ourselves feel this, we will be better for it.