Quotes About Resilience

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Music isn't fragile.

Our darkest hour is often the prelude to a great victory. God invades our circumstances and

Sometimes when storms break out, a person must be willing to let go of the weights that hold him down.

If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my own—to do things I didn't think I was capable of.

Hope is oxygen to someone who is suffocating on despair.

And because I had been in some tight corners before and had known real fear, if I found something that was true, I was happy to just write it up and deal with the fallout. No big.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family ' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

After all, the object isn't to become so mentally strong that we can suffer through any experience; the object is to become so peaceful inside that we choose not to suffer when the pain comes.

Addicts know the voices in their heads can't be trusted, and that is precisely why there are so many of us out there in the ultra marathon community, moving forward one step at a time. And that's what Nico and I did—one step followed by another until we got to Hope Pass.

Once more we shall raise our heads high, for is it not better to live standing tall, than to die on your knees?

Toleg. I like big Toleg," said Mooq. "He's kind and strong as Pollooq and gives me seal blubber. Let it be Toleg Breakback.

at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

So let me give you a blessing. When everything around you seems conspiring to tear out your heart and your mind, or show you that there is nothing but power and survival, look up there, Kar, at the moon in the giant sky. Hold it as a truth, beyond what we are too blind or ignorant to see all around us. Hold it like love, Kar, and Remember me.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.