Quotes About Resilience

My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.

Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

I'm still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

I had been searching for joy in the relatively good times of life, now I had to find joy amidst darkness and agony.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

The bottom line is that my life has already almost slipped away from me. I have two choices: I can end it or I can fight like hell to save it.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.