Quotes About Resilience

I've had an operation on my knee, two operations on my hand, injuries on elbows and stuff but you get through it.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone's opinion is.

There's always going to be people that say you're a sellout - anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That's OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.

I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.

I don't listen to opinions.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas

Even if I had not been waiting but had shut the doors against you, you should have remembered that no one can possibly shut the doors against love forever.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.' 'Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause. 'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.

Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better.