Quotes About Resilience

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

My mom raised me to never have anything control me.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."

I learned from my mom that you should always try to enjoy life, no matter what.

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

My mom drove like Britney Spears with the steering wheel and me right here [in her lap]. I'm fine, I turned out okay.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

Remember that a single mom is just like any other mom and that our number one priority is till our kids. Any parent does whatever it takes for their kids and a single mother is no different.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

My mom shot and killed her last husband. Yeah, my dad used to say "Hey, dodged that bullet. Ha ha."

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

My mom gave me unconditional support and unfailing love. You can't get any better than that. That's why I've never been afraid to lose.