Brian Celio Quotes

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

If you're mentally weak, it can destroy you. Some guys who look talented lose and never come back.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

I've always been good at handling stuff mentally.

Mental strength is something you either have or you haven't.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.

I am mentally strong.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.