Quotes About Resilience

Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.

I'm touched by this chrysanthemum it weathered the typhoon

??? ???? ??? The summer grasses— For many brave warriors The aftermath of dreams. - Donald Keene, Travelers of a Hundred Ages, New York, 1999, p. 316 (Translation: Donald Keene)

I felt deeply in my heart both the sorrow of one that goes and grief of one that remains, just as a solitary bird separated from his flock in dark clouds.

Weather-beaten heart the wind must blow right through my body

Loneliness - caged cricket dangling from the wall.

Stray no further. Do not embrace hope again.

No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross

If you don't do something you will simply get overwhelmed by something happening.

Struggle until you can't struggle anymore. Just now you decided to live your life... Don't run away.

The wisest words come out of the most damaged mouths.

The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.

To a small subset of the population the very fact that you are willing to stand up and speak out makes you a target for unfair critique.

Uno nods, looks out over his high school football field again. He knows deep down he would never kill himself. He likes being alive. Even if he knows the things that happen to him aren't always good. It doesn't matter. He wants to be alive. And not only that, he wants to see who he is. Like somebody from the outside can.

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.

He'd give anything to be out there playing instead of standing here watching. Trying to maintain this smile out of respect. He digs into his wrists some more with his nails. Breaks previously broken skin and pulls away. A smear of blood he wipes away with his other hand, rubs off across his dark jeans. Back home his mom is always on him to stop digging, but that only makes him want to dig more." -exerpt from "Mexican White Boy

There are two kinds of people in this world, young fella. Those who can sit in the loneliness of existence and those who turn away.

bottle of Chardonnay permanently in her fridge for 'emotional emergencies,' which

It's possible to do everything right and still lose. That's not a weakness. It's life.

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.

Science has demonstrated that some athletes have a higher tolerance for pain and suffering than others do, and that those who have a higher tolerance are more accepting of these sensations.

The same willingness to face reality that allows certain athletes to accept a negative turn of events also helps them bear what must be borne to address the bad situation.

I beat cancer, I had kids, and I did this with a disability. You couldn't knock me off that mountaintop.