Quotes About Resilience

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare

I don't know how one can endure all the sorrows of life without repairing to gratitude. There is such inevitable grief that the practice of gratitude is all that can provide the necessary armor.

Nurturing gratitude is preparation for the worst of days, the building of a compass that will be necessary to get back to life after the deep sorrow abates.

What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once.

I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die" Patrick Shaw-Stewart

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Forgiveness calls on deep reserves of moral courage: the courage to break out of the spiral of self-pity; the courage to set aside resentment; the courage to rise above biterness; the courage to act well, when all our instincts call on us to act badly. p112

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

It is a victory of shit and our defeat. Call it a defeat, but of courage, value and dignity.

Minä olen tuhkimus! Raivoisa tuhkimus!

Let's go drink our beers and thumb our noses at those who would do us harm.

Penso che le donne sarebbero meravigliose se tutto potesse cadere nello loro braccia, senza cadere nelle loro mani

It's all a mystery, so much is mysterious.And we are here to endure it.And in the How, there lies the whole difference—

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.