Quotes About Resilience

my earliest memories of the snow are unhappy ones. I stepped into a snow drift that was so deep I sank in up to my waist and couldn't get out.

When you've been at the bottom, nothing looks that bad, and I had been at the bottom for quite a while. The bottom was normal for me. But the bottom got worse.

That's true for everybody, I guess. We are all the victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and I'm going to try to make myself a life worth living." I

Extraordinary individuals fail often and sometimes dramatically. Rather than giving up, however, they are challenged to learn from their setbacks and to convert defeats into opportunities.

the two wounded

would have died there. Right there. And she didn't say anything. She didn't even cry at first. She just handed the letter to Pop, and he read it, and then he put his head down on the table and began to cry.

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

Jean Monnet: "I regard every defeat as an opportunity.

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

Just when you've overcome the grief, you realise you are left with the loneliness.

Is that what lives on longest, the sadness? The proof of our being weak, not the proof of our being strong?

If you learn how to work and grow, you will find that your life cannot be destroyed by the outside world. If you have to work eight hours a day, give three or one that belongs to you without money. This "Who Are You?" has to be reinforced.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this?

Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.

I have become a gate To the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.

Life is a cement trampoline.

Sometimes, you know, it seems I'm only allowed to live life between headaches.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

So fuck off to fuck-off land and leave me alone.

Jung: we only discover what supports us when everything else we thought supported us doesn't support us anymore.

When you're in a hole, quit digging!

After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city.