Quotes About Resilience

Michael G. Thomas

Michael G. Thomas

Isn't it amazing in life how one minute you are devastated by some news, but then, a few seconds later, your desperate need to survive at any price kicks in and you can find some way to turn it around in your head?

I had originally thought that a job at Starbucks might be below my abilities. But now i realized it might be beyond them. This job could be a areal challenge for me - mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle. In general, people who feel satisfied appear to smoke less, exercise more, and eat healthier.7 So is being happier just a marker of good health and not a cause of it? To find out, researchers set out to make people sick.

Your body has a remarkable ability to recover from sporadic insults as long as you're not habitually poking it with a fork.

Cognitive defusion was tested head-to-head against cognitive restructuring in the same chocolate experiment, and those who had gotten an hour of defusion instruction had three times greater odds of remaining "chocolate abstinent" in the face of a week of constant temptation.

A book is more durable than a man.

Once again the lake slammed through the dike like a truck driving through puddling, sending a fifteen-foot-high tsunami through the upper Glades, drawing the towns of Miami Locks, South Bay, Chosen, Pahokee, and Belle Glade, where the Glades Hotel was the only building left standing after the storm.

But despite their poverty and their lack of material resources, food, housing, and so forth, the poor do have an enormous wealth in their knowledges and powers of creation.

Sometimes the worst-tasting crap is the best for you.

It feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself alive..

You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

He hadn't been anything but tired and scared for six months and he'd lost a lot, mostly people, and seen far too much, but he was breathing in and breathing out, some kind of choice all by itself.

Life is not always comfortable. It is how we deal with being uncomfortable that makes us either a warrior or a

Life is not always comfortable. It is how we deal with being uncomfortable that makes us either a warrior or a worm.

This kid was writing saying that they were breaking down some of the racial lines in their towns and communities, because their break dance crews were mixed race, and they didn't give a fuck. They didn't care what the Klu Klux Klan said." - Michael Holman (screenwriter, Basquiat) from nthWORD Issue #8, coming soon...

Weak men create hard times.

Everybody hurts (REM)

Unless life also hands you sugar and water, your lemonade is going to suck.

Men are like a bungee cord, they stretch as far as they can, but always bounce back safely." "Yeah, but once in a while you hear about one breaking." "And then he's dead." "What's the logic in that?" "There is no logic in love.

Michael Hutchinson

Our challenges don't define us, our actions do.