Quotes About Resilience

I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.

no demon can posses you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it

Love doesn't die. No matter how many bullets you put in it. It breathes on it's own without oxygen, without need for anything else. It exists, swirling in it's own form of gravity, ready whenever you are to be consumed by it.

If you can't turn cold into hot, you're fucked. Go ahead and apply that to all areas of life.

Life is about taking what you want and giving even more. Not because you think you should, because you want to. Love isn't easy because life isn't easy. You have to fight for the things you want. Sometimes you win and sometimes you wish you lost instead

Broken hearts never truly heal, they mend, beat a little differently, forever after.

Girls may try to avoid being alone at all costs, including remaining in an abusive friendship.

Adolescents, especially girls, are most resilient when they are connected to others.

There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

There were two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

Management is the art of maintaining direction while managing chaos. Joan Giesecke1

Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.

Bruises on the soul hurt even more than bruises on the leg and take longer to heal. Maybe the trick is to try to avoid smashing into stuff so much. And then to be kind to ourselves as we slowly heal.

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

Todos sabemos que todo tendrá fin algún día, pero no podemos dejar que eso nos frene. No debemos dejar que nos impida vivir.

Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.

We all know that everything will end some day, but we can not let that slow us. We must not let that stop us from living.

Bloody Mike Tyson'd have trouble with you.

Il tempo passa, è nella sua natura, e seppure dobbiamo portare con noi le ferite e il dolore, mi mostrava una volta in più che il nostro compito è andare avanti.

Sometimes when I ask people to tell me their story they tell me about their achievements, what they have acquired or built over a lifetime. So many of us do not know our own story. A story about who we are, not what we have done. About what we have faced to build what we have built, what we have drawn upon and risked to do it, what we have felt, thought, feared, and discovered through the events of our lives. The real story that belongs to us alone.

She loved deeply, far more deeply than many a one who could fearlessly proclaim himself a lover. Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that often lie hidden--are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love.

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.