Quotes About Resilience

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps.

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better