Quotes About Resilience

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

Heath Ledger once said to me, 'It's built you up to knock you down and that's all it is.

Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass.

You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

Having achieved limited success under difficult circumstances (wrong boy, wrong mouth, sticky bus floor, lingering aroma of someone's forgotten banana, two girls--Miranda and Amy--not even bothering to pretend not to watch over the back of the next seat), Clementine felt adequately prepared for the real thing.

You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart.

This world leaves the Black man with no choice but to dominate it.

You can't win them all, but I can.

Even those who never frown eventually break down.

Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It's out of my control

It's harder starting over, than never to have changed

God bless us everyone We're a broken people living under loaded gun And it can't be outfoght It can't be outdone It can't out matched It can't be outrun No

Even the people who never frown eventually break down

In the end, it doesn't even matter.

Never forget the blood sweat and tears The uphill struggle over years the fear and, trash talking and the people it was to, and the people that started it just like you

Forfeit the game Before somebody else Takes you out of the frame And puts your name to shame Cover up your face You can't run the race The pace is too fast You just won't last

Clutching my cure I tightly lock the door I try to catch my breath again I hurt much more Than anytime before I had no options left again

One minute you're on top The next you're not watch it drop Making your heart stop Just before you hit the floor

When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.