Quotes About Resilience

I think of the great songs that have carried me along, songs I have sung with you, and for you, all over the world—songs that have carried all of us in rough seas as well as tranquil times, songs that have healed our hearts and kept us going. After all these years, I still believe that music can change the world, and as long as there is music, the dreams will never die.

Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankel.

Turn your face to me Turn your gaze and see All the pain surrounding you Every song you hear With a heart sincere Brings a chance for you to do Something more Than Be Alone Something more Than Be Unknown Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope Be the one who does More than she who was Be alive in joy and hope

It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats.

The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me?

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA

Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. Without this creative moistening, we may remain barren. We must allow the bolt of pain to strike us. Remember, this is useful pain; lightning illuminates.

We're human. We all occasionally wet ourselves. No one is really better than anyone else. We're just all trying to make it through the year as best we can. We screw up sometimes. We succeed sometimes. We laugh. We cry. We go on. Those are the things we should really share with each other this holiday season, right, if we dare send a letter? We should share the truth. We should share the insanity.

This was a dog that had lived a nightmare of a life and still never whined or howled or cried out of pain or discomfort. You don't make a sound, I learned from Wonder, when no one ever comes to see how you're doing.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

Wahiduddin Khan

Duniya ne kaha kabhi kisi ko khuch diya hain jo diya hain woh bhi chin liya hain

Ek umar guzar gayi ghar ke jhagdho mein Phir duniya ne bhi jeena muhaal kar diya

Himmat kar,sabar kar bhikar kar bhi nikhar jaaega Yakeen kar shukar kar,waqt hain guzar jaaega —Wajid shaikh

Ho jaaoge be-matlab hi badnaam raaz apne, apne tak hi rakha karo

Jiska bachpan hi ghar ki ladaaiya dekh guzra ho Woh ab dara sehma sa rehta hain toh zamaane ko malaal kyu

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear.

the exercise of gratitude is always a sheet anchor which will prevent you from being swept away.

Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.

Because you are not in the right business or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment.

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks