Quotes About Resilience

When I finally returned home after my five-week hospitalization, I could feel the stares of strangers on my bald head and thinning eyebrows. Everywhere I went, cancer spoke for me before I could say the first word.

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.

So many of us have moved to another city, and it's across strata, economic divides, educational status etc, but we have found ourselves in a new city with its new challenges. So there is something about 'Dayashankar' that people connect with.

Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.

The Most successful industry of the last forty years has been built on failure after failure after failure.

Suffering is an art.

Shifting is a kind of painkiller, and therefore the same as giving up. After all, if I wanted to kill my pain, why not choose the most effective method? Road-racing is all about generating pain.

The world had shrugged at him and revealed its indifference.

And then there are the haters. The net has always been filled with them, but

The pain outlives the flesh.

Life is a challenge, and facing that challenge is what makes the good great.

Yeah. Blood. Sweat. Mmm." She

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on.

Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

When despair brings home the bacon and self-esteem with it, it's hard to let it go. 'When you are suffering enough,' I suggested, 'I mean so much that it's simply impossible to go on, then something will give and the stories will change, like it or not.

the Irish... qualities are hidden, besmirched, by that what has been imposed upon us, just as the fine, splendid surface of Ireland is besmirched by our towns and villages

Colonel Woodcock obviously belonged to the 'stiff upper lip' school of army behaviour: after shouting at his wife to keep watching at the window, he got shot himself and staggered back into the bedroom, telling her, 'It's alright darling, they have only hit outlying portions of me.' Woodcock, in fact, had been hit four times - but he subsequently recovered.