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Quotes About Resilience

Nothing in the world is permanent, including hard times. Hang in there, be kind to yourself, stay connected to your spiritual source, and you will emerge with unexpected gifts. That's a promise.
~ Alan Cohen
Agony is not something that happens to you. To agonize is a choice.
~ Alan Cohen
When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.
~ Alan Cohen
If you keep asking, eventually someone will say yes
~ Alan Cohen
When love and fear meet, only love remains.
~ Alan Cohen
Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.
~ Alan Cohen
La respuesta al terrorismo, personal y global, se encuentra en su propio lugar de origen: el corazón asustado. El terrorismo terminará cuando nos neguemos a vivir aterrorizados.
~ Alan Cohen
The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.
~ Alan Cohen
There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate
~ Alan Dean Foster
Putting his lips together David whistled a few soft, carefully modulated notes. Head cocked to one side, the alien watched and listened. Then it exhaled softly, trying to duplicate the sounds. Since it possessed a very different respiratory mechanism, it failed in the attempt. That did not matter to David. What was important and what prompted him to tears was the fact that the creature *tried*.
~ Alan Dean Foster
You try kicking some butts here and they'll eat your leg right off.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Sometimes, my friend, we are forced into situations we don't like, that make us uncomfortable, that we think we haven't a chance in hell of coping with. But people cope, Frank. They cope all the time.
~ Alan Dean Foster
A few, less constrained by pride and more resilient, survived and had children. Their offspring grew up with no illusions about the supremacy of humankind or anykind. They matured and observed the world around them through different eyes. Roll the log. Give and take. Bend with the wind. Adapt, adapt, adapt …!
~ Alan Dean Foster
was certain: His former colleagues would not understand, no matter how hard he tried to explain. No one fled the First Order and lived. The sand sucked at his feet as he stumbled toward the rising smoke. "Poe! Say something if you can hear me! Poe!" He did not expect a response, but he hoped for one. Flame had joined smoke
~ Alan Dean Foster
Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance.
~ Alan Dean Foster
But patience had to be learned alone.
~ Alan Dean Foster
By the grace of your training, I will not be seduced.
~ Alan Dean Foster
One could get mad at one's neighbor, competitor, or spouse as easily here as on any other settled world. It was just harder to stay quite as mad, with the sun beaming down beneficently, the beach so close, and pleasant woods and lakes beckoning at every turn as soon as one left the city behind.
~ Alan Dean Foster
I know how to run without you holding my hand!
~ Alan Dean Foster
She would have stayed there, blasting away wildly, had not Finn half dragged, half carried her away.
~ Alan Dean Foster
His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.
~ Alan Dean Foster
This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it, I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me. I can nail my left palm to the left-hand crosspiece but I can't do everything myself. I need a hand to nail the right, a help, a love, a you, a wife.
~ Alan Dugan
if we are able to describe the situation, what we want, what is happening, and legitimize the emotional process even when we do not like it, typically our emotional arousal will start the return toward a lower state of emotional upset and eventually back to normal emotional arousal
~ Alan E. Fruzzetti
Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.
~ Alan Gratz