Quotes About Adversity

Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it's the process that teaches us the most about who we are.

We like recovery stories to move quickly through the dark so we can get to the sweeping redemptive ending. I worry that this lack of honest accounts of overcoming adversity has created a Gilded Age of Failure.

But as poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, "Barn's burnt down / now / I can see the moon.

The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up.

Disappointments may be like paper cuts, but if those cuts are deep enough or if we accumulate them over a lifetime, they can leave us seriously wounded.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

process of regaining our emotional footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ? Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Disappointments may be like paper cuts, but if those cuts are deep enough or if there are enough of them, they can leave us seriously wounded.

To know you can navigate the wilderness on your own—to know that you can stay true to your beliefs, trust yourself, and survive it—that is true belonging.

I can be as much of a lost and stumbling traveler as anyone else.

As Carl Jung said, "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful. —TERRI ST. CLOUD, WWW.BONESIGHARTS.COM1

strong back, soft front, wild heart.

We get stuck and defined by setbacks, disappointments, and failures, so instead of spending resources on clean-up to ensure that consumers, stakeholders, or internal processes are made whole, we are spending too much time and energy reassuring team members who are questioning their contribution and value.

We need support. We need folks who will let us try on new ways of being without judging us. We need a hand to pull us up off the ground when we get kicked down in the arena. And if we live a courageous life, that will happen.

4 skillsets of courage: 1. Rumbling with Vulnerability 2. Living into Our Values 3. Braving Trust 4. Learning to Rise

I've never achieved a single thing in my career comfortably.

There is one guarantee: If we're not practicing gratitude and allowing ourselves to know joy, we are missing out on the two things that will actually sustain us during the inevitable hard times. What

Failure can become nourishment if we are willing to get curious, show up vulnerable and human, and put rising strong into practice.

I'd love to skip over the hard stuff, but it just doesn't work. We don't change, we don't grow, and we don't move forward without the work.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced

As Marcus Aurelius taught us, "What stands in the way becomes the way.

we've survived and are surviving events that have torn at our sense of safety with such force that we've experienced them as trauma even if we weren't directly involved.