Quotes about Resilience

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

There's no way to convince people of your greatness. Whatever it is that you want to be, you have to know it inside and knife-fight your way to your dream.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity.