Quotes About Resilience

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head, don't sign up for the armies of anorexia or bulimia - act as if you were already free, calculate the odds, step out, remember the Code Duello - Smoke Pot /Eat Chicken/ Drink Tea.

People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences. Calamitous drops do not scare them out of the game.

Sometimes, no matter how smart you are, you can't avoid getting tripped up.

En wat is nu de moraal van dit verhaal?' vroeg Minkovski. 'Dat een slimme Jood zich uit elke onaangename situatie weet te redden,' zei Zinnenoff.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7

When we long for life without difficulty, remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.

When we long for a live without difficulties, remind us that diamonds are made under pressure and oaks grow strong in contrary winds.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.

Peter Meredith

They took turns sleeping. They ate, and they lived.

It's alright," he told her. "Well, really it's not. It'll never be alright, but you get, what's the word? Inured?

One day a Japanese guard came into the 20-year-old Moitessier's cell intending to kill him. He raised his pistol, but they locked eyes until, inexplicably, the guard lowered the pistol and walked away. Now, years later, tenderized by solitude, Moitessier wished he had spared the rat.

Once Is Enough, Miles Smeeton's thrilling (and even funny) account of his two separate and disastrous capsizes aboard his yacht Tzu Hang in the Southern Ocean west of Cape Horn.

Dumas's book, Alone Through the Roaring Forties

When you're lost in the Wild and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver…and die. But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can," And self-dissolution is barred. In hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow… It's the hell-served-for-breakfast that's hard.

there is no one right way of handling storms at sea. There is only what works for different boats and their captains in different storms, an improvised alchemy of conditions and intuition.

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

The others were led to it by admonition and example, by the need to prove hardness, after a while by indifference.