Albert Schweitzer Quotes

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

A little to our astonishment we find that we are still here and that we can still eat and sleep and work and smile. We can deal with an open crisis; we could not fight a shadow.

You're going to go through ups; you're going to go through downs. But staying steady is most important, and being able to bounce back is also very important.

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.