Quotes About Resilience

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.

Losing tears along the seam of your own image of yourself. It is a mark of shame that causes internal injury, but no visible damage.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world was falling apart.

We Shall Overcome" by Pete Seeger. I remember that moment with crystal clarity and I comprehend it as a turning point in my life: a moment terrible in its illumination of a toad in my soul, an ugliness so pervasive that it seemed my insides were vomit.

the hardships and perils that eat around the edges of even the strongest loves.

My life did not really begin until I summoned the power to forgive my father for making my childhood a long march of terror.

life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation.

Sergeant Hicks seemed to be laid out in squares as though he were constructed out of cinder blocks. There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. He walked as if each step he took was driving a hated enemy toward a precipice.

No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons.

Upstaged by a schizophrenic, Dallas said. The story of my life.

He had the soul of a fortress and eyes that had peered at the world from battlements too long.

that life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation.

The South's got a lot wrong with it. But it's permanent press and it doesn't wash out.

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere.

La manière sudiste? dit-elle. - L'immortelle expression chère à ma mère. Nous rions quand la douleur se fait trop forte. Nous rions quand la pitié de l'humaine condition devient trop pitoyable. Nous rions quand il n'y a rien d'autre à faire.

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere. In teachers' manuals, in the platitudes muttered by educators, in school boards, in the community, and most significantly, in myself.

to worry about. But that's not how it works. Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you.

realized his wounds had enhanced his manhood and his own sense of himself.

Sensing that Mrs. Brown was preparing to launch a verbal grenade but not knowing exactly how to divert the attack, I simply shrugged my shoulders and prepared for the worst.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. The great secret of athletics is that you can learn more from losing than winning.