Quotes About Resilience

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

As I walked down the extremely narrow hall of my not-so-mobile home, passing over the pale yellow linoleum curling up so that it no longer reached the thin blond paneling of either wall, I remembered the plush two-story brick home Susan and I had shared in North Atlanta. It was nice. Very nice. But this impoverished place and the fringe existence I was now living here felt more like home.

I was reminded of the words of Harlem renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston: "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company

You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.

Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

But Life, being Life, can never die at all. —FREDERICK TENNYSON

Our brains are wired in such a way that we can forget, so we don't all end up eating the barrel of a gun.

Michael McCloskey

Wallace Stegner once wrote that the lessons of life amount to scar tissue.

Michael McGarrity

The wound in one person can become the door through which everyone can find the center of life again.

At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.

The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you are going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

Fear is an old word that derives from the same roots that give us "fare," as in "thoroughfare." Although it often causes people to run away from troubling situations, at a deeper level, fear means "to go through it." The hidden purpose of fear involves bringing us closer to natural instincts for survival, but also for awakening inner resources and sharpening our intelligence when faced with true danger and the basic need to change.

Sometimes, the greatest safety can be found in taking the right risk. Whether it be an individual, a community or a country, when faced with tragedy or fearful uncertainty, we either become bigger and enter life more fully, or else we accept a diminished life and resign ourselves to a smaller way of being.

What good is a path that doesn't carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher." ? Maya Watson Quote

Human beings are made to forget things, otherwise they couldn't tolerate the pain of life. They say that time heals, but it's not time, it's some inner power all people have.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

cause when there's life there's still hope

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.