Quotes About Resilience

Today was scary. But they're all scary. We can't fret around the planet waiting for something to kill us, or worried something's going to kill someone we love. I'm not going to stare off into the void waiting for it all to end.

The grief doesn't leave. It becomes a part of you. Either you learn to live with it or you die. ... But grief just sits there.

You don't really know anything about yourself until you've been forced to deal with pain, real pain.

You gotta give yourself oxygen before you can give it to anyone else. I have to put my own mask on first.

the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write. The illiterate will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Consider

If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace." Will Robins

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

You can be on the right track and still get run over by the 2:40 from Albuquerque.

Nothing makes a man broad minded like adversity.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

The worst thing that happens to you. May be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you!!

Kabat-Zinn writes, "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them.

Mom would often talk about a refugee boy she'd met in a hospital in Afghanistan. He was the victim of a land mine and had lost a leg. She said to him that she brought greetings to him from schoolchildren in New York. "Tell them not to worry about me," this little boy told her from his hospital bed. "I still have one leg.

When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter--they wanted books for their children. (quoting his mother)