Quotes About Resilience

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter.

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them.

The real man gains renown by standing between his family and destruction, absorbing the blows of fate with equanimity.

I went without when I had no money, probably, 'cause of that...

The poet Mary Rose O'Reilly describes the process aptly: "People all over the world are doing very hard things—turning the other cheek, giving all they have to the poor, eating potatoes without salt—because some confused and yawning student took a note.

The castle, and all it represents, will always be with us. Once it was born, once the stone was made living, the repository of power made real, the idea could never be unmade. Even if all the castles of all the world were destroyed, in the minds of men they would be built anew; the wizard called imagination would raise high walls and towers out of ruins.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

One of the consequences of optimism is that one expects to learn from failure – one's own and others'.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

the trail, at infrequent posts, the weary Saints would

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

There is nothing more alarming to a boy than seeing a mother, or a father, buckling. It says to him that all will not be well. The boy does not know this, but he senses it, as a dog senses it, as a dog sense his master's true state of mind. (Lorenzo Dee)

Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.

You will loose everything" "I already have.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question of whether you win or lose. It is a question of whether you survive. —BORIS SPASSKY

What can I say? Life's no bed of roses For a kid who's different, A kid with horns. A bed of roses? LMAO!

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

You know that you should not feel this way, but your body keeps getting hijacked into feeling intolerable sensations and emotions.

Be yourself, but disarm potential critics where you can by being self-deprecating.

Peetee say slow and careful, "I'm not afraid of you." Halber blink. After min, he ask, "Why not?" "I've been terrified all week. It's time to stop." Don

Life, I've learned, is not an affair of joy.