Quotes About Resilience

You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie)

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

If you don't like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I'm nice.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.