Quotes About Resilience

He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.

Ill-fortune carries with it a stench and leaves a wide berth around its victims,

Had I no limbs to walk to him, I would crawl.

Lesson learned? Essential lesson learned! You can erase what you draw, even what you've spent a long time drawing and sweating over it. You can throw away what you paint and, as I learned to do later, cut it up and incorporate it into a new painting. A lesson to take straight to heart, and not only in art making.

The next best thing to winning is losing At least you've been in the race.

O the chimneysOn the ingeniously devised habitations of deathWhen Israel's body drifted as smokeThrough the air—Was welcomed by a star, a chimney sweep,A star that turned blackOr was it a ray of sun?

He had met him before, that certain down-at-heel vet growing stooped from carrying a thirty-five-pound monkey on his back.

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield

never get hurt for few people who don't love you ,turn around and you will see a million of them who cares for you

When a boat come upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I am the captain of my soul.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

Quitting is leading too.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

I never lose, I either win or learn