Quotes About Resilience

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

In life, when you start to fall, you don't have to go crazy, scolding yourself and further throwing yourself off balance. Instead, simply make adjustments.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.