Quotes About Resilience

You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears.

The 10's(2010) are a baby kangaroo, a bill overdue, a coal chute for staggering millions, a bowl of camphor punch, the fast-dissolving afterimages of a long night's exhausting dreams. Boys and girls, take off those space suits; the boot is lifted from your chest and you can safely resume the search for perfection.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

1. Never forget--"they" are always the enemy. 2. Just remember, assholes are born that way, and they usually don't change. 3. You don't want to go to jail. 4. When you start to take this job seriously, you're in trouble. 5. It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad. 6. If you decide to run the ball, just count on fumbling and getting the shit knocked out of you a lot, but never forget how much fun it is just to be able to run the ball!

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

When I finished with him [Maradona] he was like a racing colt.

[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn't give a damn.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

As sure as the sun will shineI'm going to get it, what's mineAnd then the harder they comeThe harder they fall,One and all.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

If you are a child of divorce, I would encourage you to buy and read The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce. It will help you understand your feelings and begin to deal with anger and conflict in a healthier manner.

If you have damage from your childhood or from a previous marriage, the Devil will use that as an opportunity to access your scars and try to use them to control you. You must expose him and refuse to let him do this to you.

The Devil makes easy prey of people who emotionally navigate their lives and marriages

You really can't go through life wanting to be liked. It's the hardest lesson to learn. Once you say, "Fuck it, I don't care," once you've got that attitude, then it's easy to relax, to talk, laugh, cry, whatever.

It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear a life with everything perfect.

The word was the ember and the forest was my life.

So clear off the streets when the sun goes down because darkness has always been hers, it's where she's lived all her life and she can see in the dark, cry in the dark, eat and love and hurt in the dark, it's hers and it's all we gave her, so when she catches us there in it, she doesn't give a shit who we are, what color we are, she'll bring it to us, make us feel a little of the darkness she's felt and lived in all her life.

Someone left the cake out in the rain, and, I don't think that I can take it, 'Cause it took so long to bake it. And I'll never have that recipe again.