Quotes About Resilience

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

May I rise like bread every day.

Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Blaming crashes and recessions on random and unpredictable shocks beyond our control has led experts and policy makers to view subsequent crises through the wrong lens. There are random and unpredictable shocks in life, but that doesn't mean we can't face them honestly and prepare for a world in which we know they happen even if we don't know when.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Alles ist gut, nur nicht überall; nur nicht immer, nur nicht für alle.

Not a movie to take your children to, nothing to show your ma: the little gougings, the wreck of the way they lived.

Jane didn't miss white folks, she didn't like white folks, she tried not to think about them. She kept her world as colored as she could. There was enough of it. From Langston Hughes to Sojourner Truth, her children's worlds were hardly deprived

somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

Through my tears I found god in myself and I loved her fiercely

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else's cup...

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

i survive on intimacy & tomorrow/

rise up fallen fighters unfetter the stars dance with the universe & make it ours

El cultivo de lo superfluo y de lo que no supone beneficio puede de todos modos ayudarnos a resistir, a mantener viva la esperanza, a entrever el rayo de la luz que nos permitirá recorrer un camino decoroso.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.