Quotes About Resilience

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

I salute you Brave spirit Who has swallowed so much And tasted so little.

I didn't kill myself when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching I tried to sleep but when I couldn't sleep I learned to write I learned to write what might be read on nights like this by one like me

I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way.

Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever.

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

There is a crack in everything

I tried to cry, there were no tears I tried to laugh, there was no scorn I tried to run, there was no road I tried to die, I was not born

I will starve till prophets find me, I will bleed till angels bind me, Still I sing till churches blind me, Still I love till cog-wheels wind me.

I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I'm old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering comes and Starts to climb I pray for courage At the end To see death coming As a friend

And summoned now to deal with your invincible defeat You live your life As if it's real

I stopped stopping and I stopped starting, and I allowed myself to be crushed by ignorance.

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

The wretched beast is tame I don't need a lover So blow out the flame...

Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.

No juice to be hopeless, no heart to be sad. I tried in the wind, tried in the sand.

steer your way through the pain that is far more real than you

In the hopelessness of every other thing, you make your place, you strengthen your presence, and I ask yo bow down before the lord of my life.

Success is survival.

I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the lord of song With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah