Quotes About Resilience

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, "Never give up hope, spring will come.

I believe the best revenge is to live.

What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage.

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.

Here is what I think now, reading what I wrote down for the police at age fifteen, right after I was raped. I was a good girl. Always a good girl, even when I was bad. I did my homework. If I can only be good enough, someone will eventually notice that I am trying so hard, exhausting myself with my effort to be good. This is true even today.

Why does the threat of violent death alter some of us, even if subtly, forever? Why does it make us unusually numb or calm when we ought to feel terrified? Why do scents or sounds trigger in some of us a feeling of terror or unbearable dread, even in situations where we know, at least, intellectually, that we are perfectly safe?

This is why I prefer Queens to any other place. The borough of my parents and small business owners is populated by people who know how to work around the system when it tries to fuck you.

You just remember to say, "Screw them.

Who would I be if I didn't live in a world that hated women?

I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat.

Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

What does not kill you will make you stronger and more cynical.

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

My philosophy in gadgets is simple: Use them until they fall apart. Ignore new models as long as you can; they're a plot to separate you from your money.

I find it tiresome when people parade their agonies for public viewing; the last thing I want to evoke is pity. We are all the walking wounded, your pain is no worse than everyone else's.

Tolkien tells us that we do not charge into battle because we know we will win. We do so regardless of odds and outcomes, because we have to.

De a létezés egzisztenciális módja mindig jelen van - ha elnyomva is. Egyetlenegy Saulból nem lesz Pál, hacsak már megtérése elÅ'tt nem volt az.

Çünkü devrim, hiçbir zaman umutsuzluk temeli üzerine kurulmam??t?r ve de kurulamaz.

Umut, inanç'a eÅŸlik eden ruh halidir. Umutluluk hali olmaks?z?n inanç ayakta duramaz, dayan?ks?z kal?r. Umut yaln?z ve yaln?z inanç temeli üzerinde durabilir.

Those individual and social conditions that make for suppression of life produce the passion for destruction that forms, so to speak, the reservoir from which the particular hostile tendencies - either against others or against oneself - are nourished.

While psychiatry is concerned with the question of why some people become insane, the real question is why most people do not become insane.

Though there is no fixed human nature, we cannot regard human nature as being infinitely malleable and able to adapt itself to any kind of conditions without developing a psychological dynamism of its own