Quotes About Resilience

When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour's house, whose light was on.

It would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Then you fail. And you try again. You keep at it, despite failing, or because of failing, if that makes sense. It's like creating that perfect recipe. You rework and rework and rework it until you get it right.

Yeah, you have to struggle, and yeah, sometimes you fail, but how you react to that failure is where the choice comes in. You can either get pissed and give up, or you can ask yourself, 'How can I make it better?

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

principle of treatment can be summarized as: Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass

Setback is like Grandma's muffins.

Thoughts that are keeping you ill can be changed. In other words, your approach to your illness can be changed.

Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass

Wait on no mood.

Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause.

Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!

Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be taken away from me anymore. But, to have strength means to invite disaster to come to you. And strength alone can't really protect you.

The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with a number two pencil, his heart and soul remain as fresh and brave as ever. Hemingway lives.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Dutch liberator William the Silent: "It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake; it is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere.

Still, smiles followed tears; they kept working and Jessy kept trying, and together they moved forward.

Anna and Diana were the bravest and the toughest and the most successful.

you. To add glumness to disability is to double its crippling power. Jessy's cheeriness still smooths her way.