Some of my favorite sayings all-time as they pertain to this old-saying.
-Sometimes you gotta get up while we’re still being kicked*
-“Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.”**
-“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!”***
Tougher, stronger, smarter, quicker people than you and I have been brought to tears, brought to their knees by this thing called “life”**** – you’re not (necessarily) weak, it’s just that at some point in life, life invariably finds our soft-spot(s), our weaknesses and reveals them to us. Rocky says to Apollo Creed “That’s what we do!” Well… it appears one of the things life does is point out our weaknesses to us.
*God gave this to me some decades back
**Credited to Christopher Nolan/David S. Goyer from the movie “Batman Begins” Courtesy of Alfred Pennyworth (played by Michael Caine).
***Credited to Sylvester Stallone from the movie “Rocky Balboa”.
****GOD… 🤷♂️