Quotes About Resilience

Butch knew before he walked in that he was entering the lion's den, and he wasn't surprised when he got thrown out. Word quickly spread around the Pentagon, as it always does when things like that happen. Not long after I heard about it I ran into Butch in a hallway. As we walked along, I offered him comforting words. "Hey," he said quietly, "he don't pay me to give him happy talk.

I have always tried to keep my confidence and optimism up, no matter how difficult the situation.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

A more damned crew hell never vomited," the Virginia Company president later said of them.

It's not the tragedy that can ruin you—it's your own attitude toward it. You can let adversity make or break you, Jason. It's up to you.

Even in darkness, light dawns for the upright.' That is you now. Let your light shine here in Rock Harbor.

Though she wouldn't say she would ever pray for adversity, she could see how God had used it in her life.

Prayer was their best weapon now.

The scars don't define you. Who you really are inside is what matters. Any woman with real depth would know that.

Struggle and pain aren't something to fear. We will all face trials while here on earth. What matters is how we're dealing with the challenges that come our way. Do we let them mold us into stronger, better people, or do we grouse and complain about our lot in life?

Sometimes our biggest heartaches bring the most blessings.

One unfortunate circumstance can change our lives for the worst, and all it takes is an act of kindness to turn it around the other way.

Normal life is not ever perfect. What kind of people would we be if God never allowed our faith to be tested? Adversity makes us stronger.

Nothing could define her unless she let it. She had God in her life to heal those broken places, but she hadn't let him do it.

Chloe wasn't a defect. I refuse to ever look at my child that way . . . or allow anyone else in my presence to do so.

Si stava rimettendo in piedi tra un'imprecazione e l'altra quando vide un paio di scarpe nere avvicinarsi strascicando. «Ti aspettavo ore fa.». Perché doveva essere sempre presente Max ogni volta che la grazia sembrava abbandonarla?

Colleen Gleason

And life definitely doesn't want me To just let it tell me that the girl I met, The beautiful, amazing, strong, resilient girl That I fell so hard for Should only come in third Life knows. Life is trying to tell ne That the girl I love The girl I fell So hard for? There's room for her in first. I'm putting her first.

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it "Because it is bitter, `And because it is my heart." Stephen Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines

Colleen Thompson

The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.