Quotes About Resilience

And now I'm wondering, is this what happens with MS? Does it just become a sequence of demolition to the body? Like a pattern of dating the wrong guys, slowly breaking you down until you're a shell of your old existence?

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

They wanted me to crawl," she told Magdalena finally. "And I'm ready to run.

we can't expect anything important in life to be easy or entirely enjoyable

Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

One thing was for sure: time didn't heal all wounds. Some were still every bit as fresh as the day they were inflicted.

If I'm not willing to feel the pain of life, how can I ever expect to feel the joy

You don't have to let the past write your future.

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

The times in your life where you do hard things, you look adversity in the eye and face it down; despite possibly fearness in a turmoil of fear would be the best times of your life. These things you look back on as the building blocks of your person that you ultimately become. ~Dr. Craig Challen

This much scientists agree on: Five times in the history of the earth, most life has winked out. Five times, one species after the next disappeared, the chain collapsed, grazers died as the plants they depended on were lost, and predators disappeared shortly after, life on earth reaching as close to zero as you'd ever care to get.

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

Real men aren't afraid of childish accusations. (Quite the paradox eh?)

The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.