Quotes about Resilience

Choose what information you listen to. Place a filter over your eyes and ears and only allow in things that won't bring you down, because we have our day-to-day life to do that. Do you think I don't get judged and criticized at work? Well, I do—a lot! But I've decided to hear only the things that encourage me to improve, the things that help me correct my mistakes. Otherwise, I will just pretend I can't hear the other stuff or block it out.

True love could withstand such a separation.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

When your art fails, make better art.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Attitude is everything, so pick a good one

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.