Quotes About Resilience

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Now, I ain't saying you should only date sane men (I don't want to kill off all the fish in the poluted sea), but at least find one who's willing to fight on his own.

Never be bullied into silence, never be allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Twelve Step programs counsel "Look back, but don't stare." Wonder why? Because it's fucking painful!

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

Resistance is its own reward.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.

Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard...

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

You may not like what's happening, but just accept it, and let's try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let's be patient and endure, let's try to live together. I've realized that this is the only way forward.

There is nothing to do but put up with it. I have a cat's luck." Her indomitable will had begun to triumph over despair and apathy.

When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that passion doesn't equal strength, and our sinful nature rears its ugly head.