Quotes About Resilience

The worst possible thing in the world can happen to you, and you will overcome it. You will be happy again.

You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.

All men have limits. They learn what they are and they learn not to exceed them. I ignore mine.

Nothing can unman you like an un-man.

How good it must feel to stand for something. To commit oneself to a lost cause. To gather with other like-minded souls and lock arms and sing songs under the stars. Wallowing in futility. Championing it, actually. How wonderful it must be to fight only losing battles. How safe and how comfortable. To posit yourself squarely on the side of peace and good. How brave the sand on an eroding beach.

I'm a fucking porcupine with points.

Esse mundo é muito filho da puta, não é? — disse Gus. Angel assentiu. — Mas é o único que nós temos. Gus sentiu um arroubo de amor por aquele seu compatriota fodido.

What prompts you and me to keep going through the hard times of life? God's presence. Nothing more and nothing less. Nothing else.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Jack, the man who owned the gas station and our cottage, got tired of watching me being chased. One day, when Jack saw Bobby chasing me again, he stopped us and said, "Son, it's time that you fought this boy". "He's too big," I said. "It doesn't matter," Jack said. "You can't run from your fears forever. It's time to stand up for yourself.

Tutamu Ohshima, another Shotokan master, encouraged me to go beyond my physical limitations. He pushed me to the point where I didn't think I could do any more, and then he encouraged me to go even further!

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

I don't want to die without any scars.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

I don't want to die without any scars.

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.