Quotes About Resilience

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Great witch, tough woman.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.

A Warrior is always vigilant.