Chad Gilbert Quotes

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

I believe that change keeps you young.

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I want to change a lot.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

When you are through changing, you are through.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.