Quotes About Resilience

It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.

Moths swarmed around the parking lot lamps, banging into the glass with a steady tap-tap-tap, and I wondered if they welcomed the dawn. At dawn, they could stop slamming their heads into the thing that forever kept them from the light. People don't have a dawn. We just keep slamming away until it kills us.

This man took my last son. No one could claim my hurt, or my anger. No one could have a greater claim on this one's life." Her voice was tight and fierce. She patted Ray's arm. "There's been enough killing down here. We have to find a way to live without the killing.

Sometimes. Sometimes you can change what's there, sometimes what's there changes you.

The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.

I thought if I were broken enough I would see the light like at the end of a small tube, but approachable.

Keep on truckin'.

On that long road to success, and I emphasize the word long, you will stumble. You have the choice of remaining on the ground or you can pick yourself up, and struggle again on that path that you hope will take you to the career or the success that you have dreamed of. Don't give up, just persevere."   Justice Joyce Kennard Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court

Life is like crossing a stream on a path of stepping stones; if it wobbles step back and reassess the path but always keep moving forward.

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

Liberation technology creates wealth, and open-source technology creates wealth. In both instances the 'center of gravity' for dramatic change toward resilience and sustainability is the human brain mass of five billion poor--the one billion rich have failed to 'scale.' The human brain is the one unlimited resource we have on Earth.

Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

June recalls as a child being raised in a loveless home: "I remember climbing up on the stool in the morning to get the cereal down from the cupboard. And when I took a bath, I took it alone. I didn't have rubber duckies or anything like that to play with. My grandmother would leave me and come back thirty minutes later to see me shivering in the cold water.

the reverend was back on his feet

Old guns are better than no guns.

like cornered rats, the people of Hellion would not go down without a fight.

they were still living out of the covered wagon in which they had first arrived almost a year ago.

They were pitifully few in numbers. More than two thirds of the town's population had died in the storm

Robert Dickie

losing it on the world. But even if the

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow.

If today is your worst day, then tomorrow is going to be a little better, right? And the day after that will also be a little better. Each day will get a little better, Alex, but only if you let me help you. So right now, all you have to do is get through today. That's not too hard, right? Just get through today. You can get through today, right?