Quotes About Resilience

Life doesn't have to be as hard as we make it for ourselves a lot of the time.

What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

There's always a way where we knock ourselves back down. It's the culture that we've been born into.

We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying.

We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.

No matter what, you're going to have hard days out here. There's going to be a drop here or a tough pass that you didn't come down with there.

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

There's not really a guy like me out here doing it with 7 1/2 fingers - still.

There were so many stories and so many instances where I had guys telling me that this game was for two-handed players and not for one-handed players, and I'll go out here and get myself hurt.

I don't know why it took me some time to get used to the ways of this industry because I have realized that out here when people want to pull you down they really pull you down.

My mind could keep going all day long. You give me a new body, and I could go for another 20 years out here, and do it well.

I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.

Never let your circumstances determine your outcome in life.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.