Quotes About Resilience

Brute force never changes people. People need to change themselves.

You must take control of your thoughts and your emotions, or they will control you"' Malao

What makes you think I'm coping?" "Well, for one thing, you're not lying on the floor in the fetal position. That's a good start.

After all I'd been through, I didn't need to be wiping other people's eyeballs off my cheek.

I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life.

Now, this is going to hurt just a little bit, sort of like having your flesh shredded with a cheese grater from the inside and then microwaved. But don't worry, it's not addictive.

at least things didn't appear to be moving in a "Let's snap the wishbone" direction.

My tombstone: Andrew Mayhem. He survived knives, chainsaws, guns, and being buried alive. Then the dumbass drank poison.

I was sane, I would always be sane, and I was just going to have to deal with it. Sometimes life sucks. *

But being hit in the face with monkey poo is something that, deep inside, we all believe happens only to other people.

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You tended to quit doing things after the bad times, and not the good times.

He waited for the spider to succumb to nature's plan and go underneath the surface again. It didn't. It kept swimming toward them. Another spider leapt into the pool. And then another. "Nope," said Jaunty. "Nope, nope, nope! I'm not okay with this!

Every day's a sunshiny day when you don't have maggots and spiders eating your guts.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Allowing something you've created to be undermined to a point where you can no longer believe in it or stand behind it feels suicidal to me.

The people who seem the most like geniuses are not geniuses. They're just more comfortable with failing. They try more and they try harder than other people, and so they stumble onto more songs. It's pretty simple. People who don't pick up a pencil never write a poem. People who don't pick up a guitar and try every day don't write a whole lot of great songs. If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world. You can't quit because you went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and realized that everyone on stage knows more about music than you ever will.

Failure can be a kind of pain that you shouldn't let go to waste, at least as long as you're in the proper space mentally. It will help you deal with rejection in a lot of other areas in your life.

Being willing to sound bad is one of the most important pieces of advice that I can give you. Writing a song will teach you that it's OK to fail. And more than that, that it's actually good to fail, and that you can come to appreciate the gifts of failure.

I think you're confusing suicide with self-destruction, and they're very different. Almost none of us commit suicide, whereas almost all of us self-destruct. Somehow. In some part of our lives. We drink, or take drugs, or destabilize the happy job

But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight.

The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's defiance in that, too.