Resilience : (1113)

" I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to – God forbid – live on the streets. " - Chrissy Metz

" The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first ‘I love you’s’ – chronicled in my 2012 memoir ‘Brain on Fire’ – occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant. " - Susannah Cahalan

" The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists, who as children we’d been taught to fear, kept a resistance movement alive, living and dying true to their ideals. " - Mikis Theodorakis

" Like the old Italian saying goes, ‘It ain’t rocket surgery.’ " - Nadia Giosia

" I think the core job of a coach is to select the right players for a tournament. You need players who are mentally and physically fit, who are able to deal with difficult moments. " - Joachim Low

" I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold… doesn’t bear thinking about, but I suppose we’d have made it work somehow. " - Bernard Cornwell

" The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn’t even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months. " - Joey Jordison

" Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life. " - Robert Baden-Powell

" There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we’re going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us. " - Rutger Bregman

" Every test, every trial, every heartache that’s been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what. " - Charles Stanley