Walt Whitman Quotes

When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.

My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.

We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

I think, as an outsider, you are ready to deal with whatever comes your way.

I think the inner strength that I have helps me stay calm.

I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

I can pretty much take anything that comes at me.

I don't worry about who they're putting in front of me. Why would I? That's just nonsense for me to waste my energy.

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.