Quotes About Resilience

Do not be too hard on Mr. Cramer," Wolfe replied. "His job is a difficult and often thankless one. He constantly receives assaults from all sides. His superiors in the department demand arrests, the newspapers demand arrests, the public demands arrests. I agree that he is cantankerous, contentious, and often thickheaded. But he also is honest, hardworking, and fearless. The department would do well to have more men like him in their ranks.

I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it. And now I will have to be that person forever.

Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)

In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success beauty-but some bad things happen as well. Sometimes, very bad things happen. Children sicken and die. People we love don't love us, can never love us.

Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.

You can live with hopelessness for only so long before you are, in fact, hopeless.

She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get back to where she had been before. The

She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. "Catherine.

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects. And it's a pretty good hand." "I'm

Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move. What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement. Your pride is not involved. The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it.

The important thing to remember in life is that regardless of how bad you might end up gettin' treated, don't never let nobody with an agenda stop your train from makin' it to where it's goin'.

I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

People do not lose respect for a man when he's down. They lose it when he refuses to get up.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Turn your scars into stars

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Let Your Hopes not Your Hurts Shape Your Future

Problems are never real problems unless they cause you to take your eye off your goals. When a negative reaction threatens you, look over and beyond the problem.

Success is never final, failure is never ending