Quotes About Resilience

Screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. Screw me three times...can I at least get a reach around?

All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.

Strange when that part in you is touched how quickly you can fall apart. It's as if the words that are being said go to the deepest place, the place in you that's become the way you've become so you can keep on going. The helmet you put on when you were a kid that grew into your head and now someone is saying you have a helmet on your head.

It's all sad, Gruney," Hank said. "If we let ourselves know how sad it really is, there wouldn't be anything left of us.

The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

Holdfast the Dream

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back

Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

using parking meters as walking sticks.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.