Quotes About Resilience

When we suffer, God empowers us to face the worst and become our best.

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

wait... promise me one more thing: if tomorrow you wake up feeling unoriginal or frail-hearted or faithless or tired of this world please pick up this book and start back at page one.

I know from experience that you spend your tears on the big hurts, not the little day-to-day jabs." -Star

My father-in-law once wrote a best-seller entitled All You Can Do Is All You Can Do—But All You Can Do Is Enough. I love that title. You see, we can't control the rain; we can pull out an umbrella. We can't control a harsh word leveled at us; we can return with a soft answer.

Are you talking to me, or chewing on bricks? Either way you're gonna lose teeth!

You can be successful even when you're getting pounded.

When you're under fire, when it all changes and goes the other way, a lot of guys get panicky and lose their clarity, because they're all geared up for winning. But I love adversely - it's where I see a chance to prove myself to myself.

Your own mind is your toughest competitor. Playing against another team or opponent can be hard, but fighting your own self-doubt can be even harder.

Judy, of course, doesn't stand in the ruins; she is the ruin. In this way she enthralled a generation of gay men, singing her way out of suffering while still bearing the inescapable marks of damage.

How do we remain disciplined, focused, and confident in the face of constant uncertainty?

The Key is to be like a Duck, Smooth and unruffled on the surface but paddling furiously underneath!

Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it.

Anyone can suffer but it takes a stout heart to suffer well. Pippin never loses his simple Hobbit sense, nor does he succumb to the temptation to use his suffering as an excuse to sully himself

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

People who have taught themselves how to live — what to be, what to do — from reading great works will not be overly susceptible to the culture industry's latest wares. They'll be able to sample them, or turn completely away—they'll have better things on their minds.

Americans don't like a quitter.

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for

When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others, we create the possibility of a new experience, one that often surprises because of how much joy, connection, or relief it yields. Destruction may continue, but humanity shines through.

Trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up both to our own relational capacities and to the suffering of others. Not only does it makes us hurt, it makes us more human, caring, and wise.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #14: BEING BRAVE MEANS BEING AFRAID AND GOING AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.