Quotes About Resilience

Once the fire was out and the sodden, burned tree lay smoldering on the floor, we all just stood there. No one tried to wring Dad's neck or yell at him or even point out that he'd ruined the Christmas his family had spent weeks planning—the Christmas that was supposed to be the best we'd ever had. When Dad went crazy, we all had our own ways of shutting down and closing off, and that was what we did that night.

Most important thing in life, he would say, is learning how to fall.

Dad, I said, you'll never build the Glass Castle.

Quelle drôle d'idée. Croire en Dieu. On ne pouvait pas croire en Dieu quand on jouait à la cesta punta. Ni quand on traitait toute l'année avec la souffrance et la maladie, ou qu'à la maison le suicide était un sport national, et qu'en guise de complies, on allait se recueillir régulièrement devant un petit ex-voto formolé de Joseph Staline.

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable?...Ah,I see; it's life without a break.

I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection.

Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it.

Mi son detto stancamente: Come poso sperare di salvare il passato di un altro, io che non ho avuto la forza di trattenere il mio?

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.

It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.