Quotes about Resilience

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

I think you get in a situation where once you start hearing the boos and hearing the radio stations talk and people on the outside begin to bring your name up of being benched, then you begin to lose focus, and now your play begins to fall and you begin to focus on other things.

There is a part of me that's oblivious. People always ask me, 'What obstacles have you faced?' and I always think, 'What are you talking about?' Whether or not there were obstacles, I never saw obstacles. It's never occurred to me that I wasn't good enough for something.

I wasn't the tallest kid when I was little.

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Only those who never step, never stumble.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.