Quotes About Resilience

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

I had figured out, long ago, that it paid to do what the competition found difficult, distasteful or even just a waste of time.

Peace was a more dignified version of defeat.

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...

A small part of the South not yet gone with the wind.

Better to know defeat from courage

Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go where no person has gone before, and they can somehow get toddlers to eat. The problem is that mothers are also some of the most stressed people on the planet. There's just so much to do and not enough of them.

How you handle peer pressure -- the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel -- in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.

Born to lose. Live to win.

Integrity is everything to me. I will not die ashamed. I will live on my deathbed knowing that I gave it my best shot, and everything else is meaningless to me.

you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.

Look what was sown by the stars At night across the fields I am not defined by scars But by the incredible ability to heal

I am not defined by darkness Confided the night Each dawn I am reminded I am defined by light

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.