Quotes About Resilience

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.

I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.