Quotes About Resilience

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

Our whole family has a similar sense of humor. We get over things by laughing at ourselves.

People thought I had no feelings, that I was hard. But really, I was extremely sensitive to everything.

I am a strong girl but also sensitive.

Look, I am not really that sensitive of a guy. I don't get hurt by a lot of things.

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

I got sent off a few times in my life, but I never lost my head. I mistimed tackles, and I made mistakes.

My 12 years in Los Angeles were hell! But I was sent to study hell and to learn as much from it as I could because there is no other place like hell for a full and complete education.

There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

I'll live with whatever sentence I'll get in the end - I'll just finish my book.

Getting cut four separate times really never stopped me.

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on television.

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.

I tore my Achilles' tendon in September 2005.

After the attacks on September 11th, we all learned lessons.

Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.

I think I've got one more series in me, and I don't care what it is.

Don't take things too seriously.

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

It's not a break until you hold your serve.