Quotes About Resilience

He was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies.

Life moved on like a river, and water could not long remember the bruise it had received from a rock upstream.

was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies. Your own naiveté was one of those enemies. You had to battle it, and improvise, and guard your back. See

to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

This is your life and mine! It's skull and bones every incha the road! Christ, we're dyin' by inches!

I'm no spring chicken. The clock goes and Bessie goes. Only my machinery can't be fixed.

Any idiot can face a crisis—it's day to day living that wears you out.

It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.

The hacker didn't succeed through sophistication. Rather he poked at obvious places, trying to enter through unlock doors. Persistence, not wizardry, let him through.

Patience isn't a gift. It is learned.

It doesn't matter how many bombs we drop on the Middle East, how many children are mutilated and killed, the jihadis like the phoenix will rise from the ashes and the refugees and asylum seekers will keep coming. Once they have seen on their mobile phones the way we live, they will look out across their deserts and wastelands and make the journey west.

Our lives will never be perfect no matter how hard we persevere and do good things each day. We may be hurt or humbled, but we will never give up to keep on standing in the midst of hot or cold weather.

The cost of survival is dependent on the cause of living.

The human race is bound to survival, not for self-destruction.

Veracity in what you do will define your bravery and strength. Ensuring that your bravery will lead you to success and not downfall.

You dream, you aspire. You thrive, you grow. You succeed, you rejoice. You fail, you get everything... and do it again and again.

A broken home is not a broken life. A broken promise is not a broken responsibility. But a broken time for everything is a broken future.

Being alone is being strong. In many ways it helps. The only thing that may not help is when you only listen to yourself and ignore everything around you.

Being homeless is not the absence of the soul. I was homeless and needed help. Help yourself too, even if others will not offer anything for you.

People do not comply because they do not accede. But when they know they will succeed, that is the time they will concede.

Sometimes life can be tough and hard. Technicalities of life make it harder.