Quotes About Resilience

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Well, let me make something perfectly clear (as Richard Nixon says on those old news clips about the Watergate scandal, right before he's about to fill the room with fog)I am not immortal. I've spent more than ten hours in the psych ward with Sarah Byrnes--really and truly the toughest person in our solar system--and I'll tell you what, if life can shoot Sarah Byrnes ot of the sky, it can nail me blindfolded.

The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are.

He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.

When you're different, on the down side, you learn to live from one scarce rich moment to the next, no matter the distance between.

Mr. Nak taught me a trick. He told me to think of fear as a person who's going to be around whether he's invited or not. He said, "Think of him like a big ol' bully pain-in-the-butt cousin you cain't get rid of, an' the only way to get your binniss done is to allow him to tag along, because he's goin' to anyway. Then don't take your eye off him a minute, so he don't get the chance to make you look like a horse's patoot.

I'm a little kinder to myself most of the time. I tell myself I learned an important lesson the hard way: that the universe doesn't make allowances for mental lapses or ignorance, but that maybe I'm a better man because I know that.

A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.

Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.

I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

We all have a past it is how we deal with it to find a better future

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.

I am so sick of you stealing my joy. But that's changing too. My joy doesn't come from my friends, it doesn't come from my job, it doesn't even come from my husband. My joy is found in Jesus, and just in case you forgot, He has already defeated you. So go back to hell where you belong and leave my family alone!

God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.

A basic dividing line is age fifty," says Edward Rogoff, economist at Baruch College, City University of New York. "You lose a good job at age fifty, the chances of getting another are small, so you do something else. You start your own business.

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

sometimes the only way we can discover our true power is by living through the crisis we feared. As

Mr. Gardner, why people gotta keep you down when you have your dream?" Again, I was having a long overdue conversation with myself. "Well," I said, "people who can't do something themselves, they're jealous, so they wanna tell you that you can't do it. But you know what? You got a dream, it's yours and you gotta protect it. So, don't let anyone tell you that you can't. If you want something, go get it. Period.

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

Don't listen to them," I said. "In fact, don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't do something. Not your parents, your teachers. Nobody.