Quotes About Resilience

all right is almost always where we eventually land, even if we fuck up entirely along the way.

Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

I'm not suggesting one deny negative emotions, but rather that you accept them and move through them by embracing the power we have to keep from wallowing in emotions that don't serve us well.

What I meant when I said that Hillary Clinton had made the world ready for Hillary Clinton is that I recognized her as a woman who had whacked the weeds to blaze her own trail, who had always stood up again after she was told to sit down, who had persisted, and persisted, and persisted, nevertheless. What I meant is that a woman like this was finally going to win. Someday she will.

What you've got left after all the fools have departed are the old souls and the true hearts.

There is a world of people out here who will love you for who you are. A whole, vibrant, fucked-up, happy, conflicted, joyous, and depressed mass of people who will say, You're gay? So the fuck what? We want you to be among us. That's the message of the It Gets Better Project. Hold on, it says, and stick it out, because guess what? It gets better.

This is to be expected. It is as it should be. Though we live in a time and place and culture that tries to tell us otherwise, suffering is what happens when truly horrible things happen to us

But I want you to know that you don't need to tell me this to get me to love you. You don't have to be broken for me.

You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

Everything you say to me Takes me one step closer to the edge And I'm about to break I need a little room to breathe 'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge And I'm about to break

I can't fall back, I came too far Hold myself up, and love my scars.

Against my will I stand beside my own reflection It's haunting how I can't seem To find myself again

After I blew kisses to the guys flipping me off, they smiled and gave me heart hands back.

Crawling in my skin These wounds, they will not heal Fear is how I fall Confusing what is real

When you suffered it all And your spirit is breaking You're growing desperate from the fight Remember your love And you always will be This melody will always bring You right back home

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

Success doesn't just come to lucky people or those perceived to be lucky, rather success comes to those who are more persistent than most others.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us twenty nine to one. They can't get away from us now!

That's part of this world: you learn probably more from the failures than you do from the successes.