Quotes about Resilience

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.

There are millions of human beings who live narrow, darkened, frustrated lives—who live defensively—simply because they take a defensive, doubtful attitude toward themselves and, as a result, toward life in general. A person with a poor attitude becomes a magnet for unpleasant experiences. When those experiences come—as they must, because of his attitude—they tend to reinforce his poor attitude, thereby bringing more problems, and so on.

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

Hang by your thumbs, everybody! Write if you get work!

To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.

If we don't face and overcome unsettling events in life, we are ruled by them.

If I've learned anything from video games, it's what when you meet enemies it means you're going in the right direction.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.