Quotes about Resilience

But I say his reign of terror stops here. Stops now. He might keep coming, but he won't have victory anymore. Because it all starts failing when we start praying.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

When sudden change catapults you into something new, remember this: God has a better idea for how you should spend this time of your life. You may stubbornly say, "I am going to stay right here where this brook was, no matter what." But if the brook has dried up, like it or not, you have to move on. It is

home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 1 Kings 17:8—12

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she's probably written the dialogue. It's 2 in the morning. Everyone's tired. Everyone's grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her.

People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.