Quotes About Resilience

Phillis Wheatley

to his everlasting credit, as he fought "that enemy" who, in his words, repeatedly demonstrated "Herculean deeds of valor

Jaycee Clark

I want to be six years old again - just for a day. It's not that things were so much better back then. They sucked. But I was the kind of kid who knew how to laugh about it all. That's what I want. I want to laugh.

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

If you don't give yourself room to fail, Zack, you'll live your life inside an iron cage that will gradually get smaller and smaller until you can't even breathe.

When it comes to dysfunctional families," he said,"I'll put mine up against anyone's, anytime

Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day.

Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side.

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't, because they didn't.

Torture has an indelible character. Whoever was tortured, stays tortured.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

Know inside yourself that you're strong. It's the only weapon that matters, and no one can teach that to you.

That's what a man does—he takes a look at the cards life deals out, and he doesn't give up and he doesn't whine about his sorry lot. He hunkers down and figures out what he can do with them.

Haz la guerra! Haz la guerra a tu cobardía, a tu pereza, a tu ignorancia, a tu presunción, a tu dolor. Haz la guerra primero, y el amor os será dado

Life is a horizontal fall.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

That turtle is fearless. She has to be. She carries the Earth on her back.