Quotes About Resilience

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm. He

People get up in the morning and they think it's another day. They make plans. They move in a chosen direction. But it's not another day. It's the day their train derails or a tornado touches down or the ferry sinks.

He swam backward through time, lap after lap, until he was six years old and watching Jack LaLanne tow a thousand-pound boat through San Francisco Bay, until that feeling returned -- that deep boy certainty: Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough. Scott wasn't old, it turned out. He wasn't finished. He had just given up.

In times of turmoil some people turn to magic, others to math.

Without hope, there's no growth. Without growth, there is no life.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

The Buddha likened humans to the lotus flowers. Out of the deluded mud of human existence, filled with greed, hatred, and delusion, in a world where wars, oppression, and lust rule the masses, there are those who can and will rise above the muck and emerge victorious against suffering.

Unsuccessful people are whiners and victims. Don't be one of them!

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

Anjing dipelihara dengan diberi makan. Manusia dipelihara dengan diberi uang. Tapi, tak seorangpun bisa memelihara serigala dari Mibu! (Hajime Saito)

All of us have to make the best of a bad job - which is what life is really all about.

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

There are dark times just around the corner. There are dark clouds travelling through the sky. And it's no good whining about a silver lining. For we know from experience they won't roll by.

You can't worry about what you can't control,

A heart can break only so often until the spirit breaks with it.

The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.

And that's no way to treat folks who are trying to find a little heaven after catching hell all week long.

But our God is good for a great story—funny stories that are often birthed in tragedy and hardship!

Everything was broken, meaning everything could somehow be fixed.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.