Quotes About Resilience

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future.

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.