Quotes About Resilience

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about

Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

One should not confuse creativity with whining.

To exist here, I'll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

We crafted everything that hurt us into art.

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

When I looked upon the surface of the gently flowing water, each painting that I had burned upon joining the church rose from the waves. I tried to grab them, but they dissolved upon touch.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Those who give up cannot gain victory." It's not victory that is so important, but the fighting spirit. Even if you fail, I think even just the attitude of not giving up is beautiful in itself.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them.

Don't let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.