Quotes About Resilience

It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance.

Bread feeds when broken open. Soil grows when broken open. You are not broken. You are the world's nourishment continually being broken open by design.

So, on the day after we lost Ted Kennedy's seat, when everyone in town was reading last rites over our health care bill, Obama began plotting the miracle of its resurrection.

Hillary: Live With It' is no rallying cry.

Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist, survived a Nazi concentration camp to write Man's Search for Meaning,

So when believers are afflicted by the "demon whose name is depression,"17 the best word for this may be oppression rather than possession.

Love somehow goes with suffering.

Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

The humiliation...I could have died there and I would have been happier.

But curiously, while artists always have a myriad of reasons to quit, they consistently wait for a handful of specific moments to quit. Artists quit when they convince themselves that their next effort is already doomed to fail. And artists quit when they lose the destination for their work — for the place their work belongs.

Quitting is fundamentally different from stopping. The latter happens all the time. Quitting happens once. Quitting means not starting again — and art is all about starting again.

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit. It's a genuine tragedy. Worse yet, it's an unnecessary tragedy. After all, artists who continue and artists who quit share an immense field of common emotional

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ART might well begin by reflecting on the fate of those who preceded them: most who began, quit.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.