Quotes About Resilience

You have doubted me. Doubt me no longer. You have come to destroy me. I am not destroyed. You have come to burn me. I am the consuming fire. You will feel what it is to burn.

It's this: Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.

Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That'd be a hell of a life.

Praise is always a good thing, especially in a crisis.

The last Gold Team geologist decided to retire after we basically had to reattach a limb. For a second time." "Oh." "Well, that's not completely accurate. It wasn't the same limb twice. They were different limbs.

Remember that the plant wants to eat you," the groundskeeper said. "It's not going to let you get away. Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful

This novel took me rather longer than usual to write, for a number of reasons but one big one being simply that 2017 was a raging trash fire of a year, filled with horrible people trying to do horrible things and often succeeding. It's harder to bear down creatively when the world is burning.

When I was twelve, my appendix burst, and as they were wheeling my ass into the operating room, I asked the doctor, "How will this affect my piano playing?" and he said, "Don't worry, you'll still be able to play the piano," and I said, "Wow! I wasn't able to before!" And then they gassed me.

Just accept you're drinking from the fire hose and open wide.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.

To the women who are done with other people's shit

Life goes on even when Jenkins' 'Narrative' is supposed to apply.

Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get to it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would.

Enzo showed a flair for words early and wrote his first story when he was seven, entitled The horrible sock that smelled bad and ate Pomona Falls except for my house, in which a large sock, mutated by its own horrible unwashed smell, started eating its way through the contents of an entire town and was thwarted only when the heroes Enzo and Magdy first punched it into submission and then threw it into a swimming pool filled with laundry soap.

Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win?

It was breathtaking the situations that humans put themselves into, and still managed to thrive.

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees.

And before that, there was, oh, I don't know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It's always something.

Sometimes in life you're going to win and sometimes you're going to lose. But just because you lose doesn't mean the other guy needs to win.

The next day, I got shot in the head. Before that happened, though, I fell out of my bunk. The falling out of the bunk was not the important part.

You improvised." "Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would.

sooner or later, everything simply becomes daily life. When Haden's first struck, it was the most important news story of the century. Everyone knew it. Everyone felt it. But then it just… became part of the fabric of the American story, day in and day out.

In a perfect world this wouldn't be necessary, but I don't live in a perfect world, I live in rural Ohio. [Blog post mentioning Internet Access problems where he lives: whateverDOTscalziDOTcom/2019/02/26/smudge-shot-plus-internet-update/]