Quotes About Resilience

No puedo controlar las cosas que me suceden cada día, pero puedo controlar cómo pienso al respecto.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Out in the palace gardens, groundskeepers buried statues in the dirt. As Justice and Peace were entombed together, a workman wrote on one flank "We'll come back for you." The grave was covered with leaves to conceal it. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

And so the Red Army, squeezed between two of the most brutal dictators in human history, fought on. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Hope, belief, and despair are not simply moods. They change our physical performance. They alter how quickly we react, how hard we fight, how quick we are to give up. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Not every lost soul is a lost cause

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.

in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ...

You can go extinct, or broke. But here we are on the edge of chaos because that's where, on average, we all do the best.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly understand and accept it — then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.

UNSUCCESSFULLY TRYING TO manage a life that

M. William Phelps

It's a funny thing how hope has a way of always hovering there in the background, even when one's gut says it's over.

Expect the worst and hope for the best.