Quotes about Resilience

Don't quit. Don't give up. God can take the broken pieces and make them beautiful again. It's what he does best.

It's not faith to say that when something painful happens, when you lose and lose again and the hurt goes so deep that you don't think you can take another breath, it's all going to work out for good. Faith doesn't explain. It doesn't even need to know or expect a happy ending. That's not what we're promised. Faith is abandoning illusions. It rests in something bigger, something beyond us and our ability. And I suspect you know that now.

Good things can come from pain, he said. Not all of it is good, of course, but some of it. And the places it leads are good places, not bad. Never be afraid of the places pain will take you.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

Every day was bad news and worse than the one before it, and that was all you could expect from life.

Isn't it funny what a song can do to a broken heart.

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

The mad thing is, most of my life, when I'm not in a dark mood, it's been humour that's got me through. The only way to get through this business is by laughing.

When I was growing up in Alabama in the '50s, even though we were poor and the laws were against blacks, we still had a sense of morality.

We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.