Quotes About Resilience

Everything will be all right.

I can try to forgive myself, whether or not she forgives me, because I was a child, but some things you just live with because you cannot go backward.

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

I don't think too many prisoners would live under the boots of their misery if they knew that the amount of work is the same to make ourselves miserable or make ourselves strong. And when we do, we can free ourselves without leaving our cells.

Deliberate practice requires a mind-set of never, ever, being satisfied with your current ability. It requires a constant self-critique, a pathological restlessness, a passion to aim consistently just beyond one's capability so that daily disappointment and failure is actually desired, and a never-ending resolve to dust oneself off and try again and again and again.

Beyond the edge of town, past tar-covered poor houses and a low hill bare except for fallen electric poles, was the institution and it sent its delicate and isolated buildings trembling over the gravel and cinder floor of the valley.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.

We didn't find our rightful audience, but from the ashes of the AC scene, we shall rise again – the Phoenix always does. Our true audience will find its way to us eventually. It's not unusual for a false audience to come first.

Always pursue glory. Shine like the stars. Burn up with ambition. Shed your old skin. Try, try, and try again. Fail, fail, and fail again. But fail better, and one day you will not fail at all.

Superheroes are supposedly great beings who rise to help humanity through its darkest hours. Who needs these preposterous figures? They are just the continuation of messianism by other means. Humanity needs to help itself and stop looking to fantasy beings to help it out. You will never resolve your problems while you are expecting a deus ex machina to bail you out.

Playing to win involves viewing a loss as an opportunity to learn and improve. Getting

David Sosnowski

When Hercule Poirot died on that late November afternoon in 2012, a part of me died with him.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

After a long discussion of the country's woes, the interviewer asked Bobby, "But you are an optimist?" Kennedy nodded and smiled his weary-eyed smile. "Just because you can't live any other way, can you?" he replied.

You'd better find a way to laugh at life, because it will certainly make you cry.

If they thought we were a bunch of crazies, why did they drive us to the limit?

Fear is a cruel master. It is not, however, unconquerable.

We came from many different places, had many different pasts, belonged to a variety of races and nationalities; but under the boiling summer sun, when shade temperatures often reached the century mark, the heat beating our backs like hammer until I felt like a nail myself, we were brothers sharing sweat, building our own Jerusalem in a desolate place.

It won't always be wonderful. It depends on your state of grace.

It was clear that being mentally prepared to die was not quite the same as staring death in the face.

Cette vie que tu as réduite à des petits tracas, à de légers soucis qui occupent ton esprit étroit comme l'anneau que tu portes à ton annulaire gauche.

Just tell yourself, "No broken windows.