Quotes About Resilience

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

Music not only saved my life, it gave me a life

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

I saw a sick man pick up his instrument and be well

Hope is optimism with a broken heart.

A myslí si pÃ…â"¢itom: V pohodÄ›, žádnej problém, kunda, kunda.

No dejéis que os digan que no hay monstruos.

Es vienk?rši atkl?ju, ka š? pasaule ir p?rlieku smaga, lai taj? b?tu labs," saka Bannijs, tad aizver acis un, izp?tis elpu, sastingst.

If there was a thorn for every time that ah have died today,' ah thought, 'a thorn for every time that they have killed me, the world would be one big briar patch.

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,' says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built Out of longing great wonders have been willed

There Will Always Be Suffering It Flows Through Life Like Water

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

It was sort of my own personal apocalypse.

Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.

I want to tell my granddaughter the lesson of the book. The lesson that they can beat you, but they cannot defeat you. I must tell her that.

The question of how one survived is simply not asked. It is not polite. How one survived is best not discussed.

Coffee will get you through a time of no money. Money will never get you through a time of no coffee.

Life goes on. Even after the end of the world as we knew it. I

And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.

We're an easy target for remarks about crossing the border and turning the clock back fifteen years, or a hundred. We're a state that's known for pineapples and cane toads, old bad attitudes and the brain-addling heat that comes from the Tropic of Capricorn sitting right across our middle. We're that kind of state - hot and steamy, unlovely and unloved, far too much fodder here for metaphors about festering and putrefaction.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.