Quotes About Resilience

chair wouldn't rock. So I heaved myself from side to side. It still didn't move. I gripped the arms and jerked myself around and hung way out over the arms like some rodeo rider on a wild bull.

These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross the line, there's no coming back. Mark my words.

We are not so much defined by the wars we fight across the globe, but by the wars we have fought within ourselves as a nation.

I'd slink back to my room and curl up on the bed like a fish-hook and cry until I was rusty.

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

The women at Dachau knew they were about to be gassed when they pushed back the Nazi guard who wanted to die with them, saying he must live. And sang for a little while after the doors closed.

The heart never fits the journey. Always one ends first.

You can't work in a steel mill and think small.

Using a daring and audacious method, the citizens of Konstanz in Germany managed to prevent allied forces from dropping a single bomb on their city during the Second World War... they left all of their lights on at night! As the city is very close to the border with Switzerland - who were neutral in the war - the allied forces assumed the city was Swiss, and didn't target it.

Only two out of every ten men born in Russia in 1923 survived the Second World War.

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.

In times like these And times like those What will be will be And so it goes

This book was written with the hope that it will] save someone who wants to give up, for there is always a new life waiting.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

But the children are not fine. They will never be.

And for a moment she was the heroine again. Battling the odds. But just for a moment. Because suddenly it was clear to me again that all she could do was take it, powerless. And lose. And I remember thinking at least it's not me. If I wanted to I could even join them. For that moment, thinking that, I had power.

We're many things, all of us, blown by so many unexpected winds.

You could grow up every which way, a tree standing tall and straight in an open field or blasted and twisted on the side of a mountain.

Good ol' boys could be pushed. Wolves could be made to snap. It was time he started pushing.

Pain can work from the outside in.

Being on a spiritual path does not prevent you from facing times of darkness. But it teaches you how to use the darkness as a tool to grow.