Quotes About Resilience

Owl was explaining that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was to keep the Head Above Water...

And I know it seems easy," said Piglet to himself,"but it isn't every one who could do it.

Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more glad to see Pooh than he was, still there it was, some lived in trees and some lived underground, and-- "You mean I'd never get out?" said Pooh. "I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got so far, it seems a pity to waste it.

The only thing for old age is a brave face, a good tailor and comfortable shoes.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands. "There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.

After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.

Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.

Deve farcela con le sue forze." "Può darsi che sia vero, ma questo non significa che debba restare solo.

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

Sometimes the worst thing about change is the shock of the change itself and not actually the new circumstances.

It's hard to explain how much that feeling of the bottom potentially falling out at any moment takes its toll. It makes you anxious, of course, and constant anxiety is impossible for the body to handle. So you develop a coping mechanism, and for us that meant shutting down.

Even after being beaten down lower than I thought possible, I always bounced back. I still looked for love again.

I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything—an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person—you have merely decided to

the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.

Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering, we are transformed.

Everyone at some point will suffer a loss—the loss of loved ones, good health, a job. It's your desert experience—a time of feeling barren of options, even hope. The important thing is not to allow yourself to be stranded in the desert." — Patrick Del Zoppo

Taking this step might shift too many supporting pillars in my emotional infrastructure, which already resembled a makeshift shanty town put together after a hurricane, with psychological corrugated sheeting and unbalanced blue tarpaulins. It lacked stability but it held, some new life had grown up around it, there hadn't been a storm for a while and I didn't want my shack of feelings blown down, like a little pig's in a fairy tale.