Quotes About Resilience

You're going to fall down in this life—everybody dies. But you be the kind of person who doesn't stay down for long. Get back on your feet and keep going no matter what.

I think hope is just about the best thing a person can have

He shouted out like a drill sergeant, " Men, are we having fun yet? "No sir!" the vets cried out. " Men , are we going to fight like soldiers or fools?" The vets looked at one another, grinned. "Like fools, sir!" Everyone laughed. Luger dropped his cup again, but this time he kicked it hard across the room. " I can still kick! And everyone in rehab worked a little harder.

WELCOME HOME, FOLKS WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT

but Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.

In life you have to laugh or you'll cry

Sometimes being hopeful needs to be a very deliberate act.

I don't expect life to be easy. It hasn't been yet and I'm not holding out for smooth sailing in the future. Not everyone likes this philosophy, but it makes sense to me because when life hits the skids, I don't have to regroup as much as the people who walk around in a cloud like the world owes them a joyful existence.

You've got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

My favorite star fact is: stars die but can keep on glowing. I like stubbornness in a star.

When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.

I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent.

You don't become a real sailor until you sail in a storm.

you've got to love yourself with all your shortcomings, and you've got to love the world, no matter how bad it gets." Boy,

You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb.

Remember, it's not that you fall; it's what you do next that counts.

You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.

She didn't wallow in problems or reveal self-doubt.

In the end, [Sonia] Sotomayor had been in the right place at the right time for the right president. She had the tickets and the people: Princeton, Yale, Morgenthau, Calabresi. Fortified by the dreams of her mother, her personal smarts, and intense determination, Sotomayor had defied predictions from her youth.

She did not retreat in humiliation. She did not turn bitter. She developed her own mantra: 'How am I not going to let this beat me?' In later years she would tell students, 'You have to get up and try again. That's sometimes really hard to do, when you get embarrassed over failure.

A week before the Daimler opinion was handed down, in January 2014, [Sonia] Sotomayor told an audience of more than a thousand that to bolster her courage, she often thought about the worst thing that could happen when she undertook a challenging endeavor. She would conclude: 'You know something...so what?

A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking out through it.

Surrender to the things that can't be changed is one of the keys to peace of mind.