Quotes About Resilience

Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

Cuando alguien te patea, quedás alerta como si no hubiera nadie de tu lado, y cuando de pronto alguien te trata bien bajás la guardia y te desarmás. El cariño te derrumba.

La guitarra siempre me quedó grande, me sonaban sucios los acordes, demasiadas cuerdas para tener en cuenta, demasiadas notas en ese puente. Para un autodidacta, para el que toca de oído como yo, el ukelele es ideal. Entendí que prefería tocar bien el ukelele que seguir tocando mal la guitarra, y eso fue como una nueva filosofía personal. Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita.

Si no podés con la vida, probá con la vidita. Se

Podréis quitarme las monedas que llevo encima, podréis quitarme el reloj de mi muñeca y las llaves que llevo en el bolsillo, podéis quitarme hasta la vida; sólo hay una cosa que no podréis quitarme, por mucho empeño que pongáis: el miedo que tengo.

now that I had finally confronted him, he had lost his power over me.

When they lock the door, climb out the window. – Mr. Morrison, volunteer at the Humane Society

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

No matter how sad you feel, plan something special that you want to do each day, even if it's only taking a bubble bath or watching a movie. Set a date to visit a friend, or order a book you want to read from the library. Always have something to look forward to.

fearful—reflect

The ability to quit fully is as valuable a tool to living well as is persistence.

Kelli Farrell talks about the difference between girls and boys who struggle to get through high school: "Girls, especially those whose moms are head of household, get the message that men come and go, that they're going to have to take care of themselves and their kids. They're ready for the opportunity to step up. By the last year or two in high school, many boys have already steeled themselves for failure. They've checked out intellectually, mentally, and emotionally.

I felt the ninety-eight-year old house lift slightly off the pilings it was built upon. God-awful scary.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

Some of us just go along . . . until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us -- or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us

We singe but never burn.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

He [Pope Benedict XVI] spoke of the distilled message of John Paul's reign: "Be not afraid

Laughter through tears: it's the Southern way.

If you've never seen a steel magnolia on the warpath, you've missed one of the world's greatest wonders.

Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.

Seanabhean is ea mise anois go bhfuil cos léi insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach. Is mó bogradh is cruatan curtha agam díom ón gcéad lá do saolaíodh me go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. Dá mbeadh 'fhios agam go mbeadh a leath, ná a thrian, i ndán dom ní bheadh mo chroí ná m'intinn chomh haerach ná chomh misníúil is do bhí i dtosach mo shaoil.

You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather.