Quotes About Resilience

The direction of joy isn't always up. Often to be joyful we must go down - down through the noise of racing thoughts, down through swirling chaos of circumstances, down through the deceptive appearances of life, down into the still waters and green pastures of the heart's core.

I love that we're living the kind of life where things are wearing down around us

a gradual leaking away of all conviction

her self-confidence was one of those markers I've always held up to myself as proof that I had done a decent job as a father, a true indicator that she had grown strong and self-sufficient and would not be buffeted too easily by whatever life threw at her, nor would she shirk those moments when she would have to stand her ground

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Losers Focus On What They Are Going Through; Champions Focus On What They Are Going To

Me encargo de los problemas cuando son del tamaño de una bellota. Rechazo verlos convertirse en grandes robles".

In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success.

That was one of my dad's greatest gifts, as well as one of the greatest characteristics of the English, they find things funny quickly. My dad would say, 'There is nothing so terrible that can't be laughed at.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Never let your dreams go away.

Remember the hours after September 11 when we came together as one. . . . It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.

So you're saying that after I take a disappointing shower I should get in bed and lay there and weep?

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill." ? Mike Royko

Challenge in hand, and all stuck together, State Fire Marshal William Cowhey observed: "There's enough brains and good will in this room to overcome this problem that has hit Chicagoland." (Results have indicated that it wasn't a very big room.)

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

We pursue the impossible, climb unclimbed mountains, ski near vertical slopes, ride the most difficult and dangerous rapids , constantly challenging the forces of nature . We Are The Warriors .

We fought are tails of today

Meanwhile, the residents of the 138,000 damaged buildings continued to swelter and suffer. Local Miamians, as well as citizens from Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, attempted to drive bottled water, food, clothes, and other supplies into the stricken area. They were successful during the first few hours; but they were shut down by the end of the first day. The same bureaucrats who were giving mixed signals to Washington seemed to prefer organized suffering to disorganized relief.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.