Quotes About Resilience

That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

Jig had never worried about pursuing his destiny. Generally, destiny pursued him. Then it knocked him down and kicked him a few times for good measure.

Heart of Glass

Don't worry about a lost finger," Darnak said gently. "Many an adventurer has lost a finger, or worse, and still gone on to accomplish great things. Have you heard the song of . . . I forget his name. The little guy with nine fingers, from the middle continent. The one involved with that ring business a while back.

He was able to hear the world say "no" to him in the form of failed experiments;

Winning isn't everything, but the will to prepare to win is everything.

Take responsibility for the bad decision, learn from it, embrace the failure, and soldier on without fear because you are only one decision away from getting back on track. But

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

I feel that we're all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

when things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh

I'm just really a wise ass kid getting wiser and I'm going to get even somehow for your dumb hatreds and all them war baby dreams you left in my scarred bed with dreams of bombs falling above that cliff I'm hanging steady to.

What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your face against it.

We only meet the God within our true selves through suffering. We seek the wilderness because in this solitude we can hear ourselves more clearly.

Wheat—like men and women—benefits from being crushed. Crushing makes it fit to stand up all the better.

If you are paralyzed by your past, if Satan is destroying your gifts and your calling by his incessant replaying of old tapes, you're actually being hit by a double whammy. The original damage in the past is one thing - but now you're letting yourself be hurt and sidetracked again by the memory of what happened... We should not be ignorant of Satan's devices, and these ugly memories are one of the main weapons in his arsenal.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.

Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.