Quotes About Resilience

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. —Jonatan Mårtensson 3.1 SPIRIT-LED, NOT

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

Failure is an event, never a person.

your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.

But no, your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.

Today I get to experience God's strength when I am weak. He gives me everything I need to do what he's called me to do. Rather than a busy, bad day, I'm going to have a positive, productive one.

he made us to be warriors so that we'd fight our fears, learn from our mistakes, and live to fight another day.

But ignoring the tough stuff doesn't make it go away. It just allows it to fester. Maybe you need to start dealing with the scary stuff, and maybe you need the help of a professional counselor to do that. Maybe you have pain from your childhood that you've buried or locked away, something you need to deal with. Please do. Don't let that stuff control you any longer.

Walt Longmire: "I punched him in the fist with my nose, but I think he'll live.

When you go to a dogfight, it's always good to bring the meanest bitch.

Some fires can't bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As

This is how it ends with everyone. You fall—you don't get back up.

In my life, I have been kicked by horses and bitten by them. I've been stepped on, crushed against gates, and thrown to the ground, but I have also been nuzzled, rubbed against, carried by, nickered at, and warmed by the great beasts. I thought of all the horses I'd known and couldn't think of a bad one.

don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.

You keep going, and you hope for the best, and sometimes, maybe not very often, your hopes come true.

depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. —Albert Camus

Trees teach us patience, but grass teaches us persistence.

and in that is their power, the strength of many—chaos.

I secure what's left of my dwindling humanity with the false confidence of the living, the deceitful wit of the eight-foot tall and bulletproof. Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me. We

I glanced at the posture. "Look, I know you think you've got the original franchise on grief, but there's a lot of it flying around these days and most of us just suck it up and do what we can to help each other, you know?

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