Quotes about Resilience

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.