Quotes About Resilience

I am awaiting the return of the nerves to the epidermis. They're being pretty damn slow about it.

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, I survived.

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My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

I can wade through the dark, but I can only see as far as the guttering candle allows me.

I bid you a Jew.

I wonder if I'll ever be without fear… Maybe it's not about being without it. Maybe it's about how well you walk with the weight.

Everyone ages. Everyone can learn a trade and pay taxes and have a family. But that's not growin up. It's about how you act when your shit gets shaken up, it's about how much you see around you. That's what makes a man.

There's only one London. That's it. We are what we are.

Living history is thrilling, especially in an eloquent city, in a talkative town, in a place where people fought to get here, fought to stay here, fought to get out.

Oprah Winfrey said in a Harvard commencement speech in 2013, "There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Work ethic (chapter 1) Resilience (chapter 2) Originality (chapter 3) Childlike imagination (chapter 4) Insatiable curiosity (chapter 5) Passion (chapter 6) Creative maladjustment (chapter 7) Rebelliousness (chapter 8) Cross-border thinking (chapter 9) Contrarian action (chapter 10) Preparation (chapter 11) Obsession (chapter 12) Relaxation (chapter 13) Concentration (chapter 14)

I had never had a childhood that was anything but a miserable effort at trying to be an adult," Picasso said.

Fear Is Weak Against Hope.

Have no fear, in being Weak. Take no pride, in being Strong.

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.

Being frightened is not the same as being a coward.

They'd never know how confusion and cruelty change people, make them hard—the way the deepest cuts make the toughest scabs.

It's not unusual, while waiting for somebody to kiss the frog and the real parents to come home, for a foster child to live in ten or twenty different houses.

They rarely stopped while reading a piece to try to repair their confusion. They kept doggedly on until they finished the "assignment," even though they had no idea what they were reading.

I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.