Quotes About Resilience

I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.

She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky.

There are things in your life that you don't want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.

You're so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn't bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid, epigram in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.

Når verden går meg imot, og det unnlater den sjelden å gjøre når det gis noen leilighet til det, har jeg alltid funnet meg vel ved å ta en friluftsvandring som demper for min smule bekymring og uro. Hva som hadde vært i veien denne gangen, husker jeg nå ikke mer; men det som står klart for min erindring, er at jeg en sommerettermiddag for noen år siden vandret oppover engene på østsiden av Akerselva

Strength Doesn't Come From What You Can Do. Strength Comes From Overcoming The Things You Once Thought You Couldn't.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. —Bob Marley

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

It is hard to go into a fight and were often afraid," confessed the Cheyenne warrior John Stands in Timber, "but it was worse to turn back and face the women.

Asked about their gravest cases, med students say, A patient who had been doing well in treatment lost his job, could not afford his medicine, resumed drinking, missed his clinic appointments, and after four months was brought to the emergency room by the police. Paralyzing melancholy has become an element in a tale of treatment interrupted.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

Running from horrors doesn't help. The only way to deal with them is to meet them head-on.

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.

my disruptive experiences are not outside impositions to or an attack on my faith, but are the soil out of which my faith matures and takes shape.

Grace grows best in winter.