Quotes About Resilience

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class.

A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never be taken for granted! I am lucky that I got dealt some cards that showed me what it's like to not have family, and I am much luckier to now have the chance to create my own deck!

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

And in this new place in my life- I was sleeping alone for over a year, finding the middle of the bed, and really working on myself- I started to become worried about meeting someone because I was really feeling different than I had ever felt in my life. So strong, and I didn't want anyone to take that away. Someone would have to be the human equivalent of addition and not subtraction. Period.

She needs me for my strength, not my worry.

I may not have done it with grace, but I fought my way into something better and more enlightened... My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

And maybe now it's about telling the occasional story that I recently believe in and think would be good to put out there into the world. But I look back, that crying taught me how to approach everything in life. Acting or Otherwise.

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

If you are going to go through hell...I suggest you come back learning something.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard.

I've been really fortunate, man, I got out of the game after 14 years and ... I certainly got hit plenty, but everything, so far, functions fairly well.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

There are no such things as dead ends. Only people who find dead ends.

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

There is no shame in falling," Pernicar said, standing up. "There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again.

Take what makes you weak and turn it into something that makes you strong.

On war-torn land streams flow and mountains stand

White gull in the vastness of the waves—ten thousand miles away, who can tame him?

Before you decide to kill yourself, attempt the impossible.