Quotes About Resilience

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties