Otherwise, how do you bounce back when reality batters your belief system and love does not, as promised, conquer all? Is hope a drug we need to go off of, or is it keeping us alive? What’s the harm in believing?
— Cindy Chupack, Liz Tuccillo, Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
Turk: Look, man, we all have those bleak moments where we swear we'll never bounce back. Like when I was seventeen, my mom walked in my room with a look that I had never seen. She said, 'it's over Turk... Michael Jordan's career is over.' Dr. Cox: Is anyone a bigger idiot than you? J.D.: Is he the b…
You've been down before. You've been hurt before. You got up before.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
Out of massive suffering emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.
They tried to bury me, but didn't know that I'm a seed.
Cleaning the wound is often more painful than the cut itself.
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually mad…
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.