Quotes About Resilience

That's the secret, Frank. Always have an iron in the fire. Always have another angle ready to go... Remember, if you can't outplay them, you have to outwork them. - Charles Schulz

perhaps because much further back I had had to face certain difficulties until I decided to accept the fact that a man must be what he is, life must be lived as it is… and you cannot live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be."128

David Morrell

A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You

But Jewish history is far more than the static tale of antisemitism. It is also a story of constant motion that kept Jews lithe

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

Hope is a verb with the sleeves rolled up.

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JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

We stumble down dark byways into cul-de-sacs and blind alleys; we get exploited and taken, disillusioned, fed up, and we keep on trying.

I had a tumor. But it was great.

But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome

Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.

Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient.

Stop thinking of yourself as an infant with an infant's supposed mentality (e.g., "fears of abandonment"). Think of yourself as a adult with an infant's resilience harnessed to your increased abilities to survive and cope. It is reasonable and necessary to expect adults to self-soothe and self-regulate better than infants.

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike.

I wasn't broken, just resting, readying myself for the next big thing.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings.