Quotes About Resilience

Life's a marathon, not a sprint.

Phillip Jennings

After checking into the Hotel Monaco in downtown Seattle, Dana walked to Yesler Way, a steep street known as Skid Road in the 1850s, when the area was teeming with trees and a chute was used to skid logs to Henry Yesler's sawmill. When Seattle's city center moved north, the area became a dilapidated haven for drunks and derelicts and went from being called Skid Road to Skid Row, a term eventually used all over America to refer to a down-and-out section of a town or city.

I learn more about God From weeds than from roses; Resilience springing Through the smallest chink of hope In the absolute of concrete....

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

Rowan knew it was now possible to look directly at Zandra, Zandra the Princess of Jupiter, the one he had loved all his life. He reached out to take her hand. True, he was covered all over with scars and scratches and stitches, but then, in a way, so was she. The end.

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like.

Broken hearts mend. It's a lot harder to mend broken lives.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Perhaps most important, we need to support women who have fought back against their batterers and rapists and are wasting away in jail for daring to save their own lives. They are political prisoners and should be honored as such—not seen as pathological masochists who "chose" to stay until they "chose" to kill.

trauma suffered by women at home in violent "domestic captivity.

Mothers are often psychiatrically accused of alienating a child from the child's father if that child does not resent or hate the mother, or prefer the father.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. —LORD BYRON

The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing

I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.