Quotes About Resilience

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night before Tae and I came to Nashville.

I'm gonna forget all the negative press and focus on being the best version of myself.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'

Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.

For me, 'The Goldbergs' was about surviving a crazy family - and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!

In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.

When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

convingerea c? nu exist? o "elit?" a destinului omenesc È™i c? omul "cu mâinile È™i cu buzunarele goale" este chemat s?-È™i f?ureasc? într-o lupt? permanent? cu forÈ›ele adverse È™i, uneori, cu el însuÈ™i, viaÈ›a, justificarea, meseria, bucuria È™i propria lui conÈ™tiin??.

les mauvaises herbes poussent, elles aussi; preuve qu'on peut devenir grand sans cesser d'être mauvais.

I'll endure anything, your red-hot tongs and molten lead, your racks and prongs and garrotes-- all your fiendish gadgets, everything that burns and flays and tears-- I'll put up with any torture you impose. Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

It gnaws at her, I'm sure of it, but slowly, patiently: she takes the upper hand, she is able neither to console herself nor abandon herself to her suffering. She thinks about it a little bit, a very little bit, now and again she passes it on. Especially when she is with people, because they console her and also because it comforts her a little to talk about it with poise, with an air of giving advice. When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

La peur, c'était bon avant, quand nous gardions de l'espoir.

The true self is always in motion—like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes—in writing or life—and do not dwell on them but move on and write more. —Brenda Ueland

I'll rise like an ember in your name.

After all, behavior is the ultimate determiner of survival.

Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?

No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure... you might feel.

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.