Quotes About Resilience

The only whole heart is the broken heart. But it must be wholly broken

That's the only way to do it—go.

We told ourselves that we would assume that nothing would be done when we expected it to be done; the fact that it happened at all would be enough.

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.

When one's life begins with a dead twin brother in a two-room shack with no electricity, rags in the cracks to keep out the winter cold, and a flower in a milk bottle for decoration in the summer, the world can seem angry and ungiving; a teat of sour milk.

For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.

That's it. I'm asking you, I'm really asking you—how is it possible that we aren't in a permanent state of mourning?

Some persons are made more perfect by what befalls them, as is whatever befalls them can never make them less, can never bring them low, as it might others. --Gina Berriault, The Tea Ceremony

They locked her in the cage when she started to bleed.

What was it Beckett wrote? 'I can't go on. I'll go on.' Story of my life.

where it revealed itself to him, and try not to dwell too much on his failures and losses.

You can't spend your life sulking over all the mistakes you've made. You'd never bother getting out of bed in the morning.

But the moment we experience the ground beneath our feet dissolving and feel the loss of all certainties is the moment we touch upon the experience of the Cross.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

and dust, the armored spearhead

the emphasis on linear systems, top-down control, relentless efficiency and eradicating failure left little room for creative discovery and trial and error.

entrepreneurs do not try to avoid errors or surprises. They seek to learn from them, just as chefs often arrive at new recipes through improvisation.