Quotes About Resilience

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

When you hit a wall, just kick it in.

Got to lose control before you take control.

We promised that we'd never leave one another again, until we both knew we were ready to stand on our own. And this vow, through everything we were yet to go through, we kept.

This is what I know - Sam is dead. My brother is dead. My mother is dead. My father is dead. My husband is dead. My cat is dead. My dog, who was dead in 1957, is still dead. Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow.

Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

For a brief moment I felt as if I might die; and just as quickly I knew everything would be all right.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

But all the heart break of her heroins had not prepared her for her own.

What is the song about? I asked. -Death, he answered with a laugh. But don't worry, nobody dies, it is the death of love.

Laughter. An essential ingredient for survival. And we laughed a lot.

He tried everything from science to voodoo, everything buy prayer. That, at least, I could give him in abundance. I prayed ceaselessly for him, a desperate human prayer. Not for his life, no one could take that cup from him, but for the strength to endure the unendurable.

So be we king or be we bum the reed still whistles the heart still hums

I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

I wiped the shit from my shoes again and again, still going about my business, that of being alive, the best I could.

I wasn't worried, though. I just needed a break and I wasn't going to give up.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Do not cast your boat on a river of tears, cried the tearing wind. Small hands are still, be still. She knelt then lay on her side, clutching a key, accepting kindness of endless sleep.

Kahkahalar. Hayatta kalabilmek için önemli bir malzeme. Ve biz s?k s?k kahkaha atard?k.

I had to keep swatting flies away, but that didn't bother me. Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

Sometimes I wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.