Quotes About Resilience

Accept that some days you're the bug, and some days you're going to be the windshield.

A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.

Sometimes you have to say, 'Today's just not my day.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

The past does not define, you the present does.

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

Do I look like the kind of person who gives a ****

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

You may be thinking, But life really has dealt me a bad hand. It's really not my fault that my life sucks. Just hold on a second. I'm not saying taking responsibility means controlling all the things life throws at you—none of us can do that. And there are times when we are victimized. Allowing yourself to accept that reality frees you to release any guilt or shame you might be carrying for tragedies and hardships that befell you in the past.

hoping some would-be robber or rapist or killer would find her and do her the favor of ending what she herself could not. But nothing bad had ever happened.

Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions—discouragement and despair—and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light.

He was intelligent and he must have known that he would again be the only man in those lights with real bruises.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

The author relates that Mickey Mantle did not expect to play one day and showed up extremely hung over. He was nevertheless called on to pitch and smashed a towering home run to an enthusiastic ovation. He related to his teammates, "Those people don't know how tough that was.

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

We are not going to die." Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?" "No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.