Quotes About Resilience

Acknowledge to yourself that the current criticism is triggering grief over a long-standing wound.

Debemos permitir que nos golpee el rayo del dolor. No lo olvides: este dolor es útil, el relámpago ilumina.

It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. A creative recovery is a healing process. You are capable of great things on Tuesday, but on Wednesday you may slide backwards. This is normal. Growth occurs in spurts. You will lie dormant sometimes. Do not be discouraged. Think of it as resting.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

In order to do something well, we must first be willing to do it badly.

Mi abuela se marchó antes de que yo aprendiera la lección que enseñaban sus cartas: la supervivencia radica en la cordura, y ésta se encuentra en prestar atención.

Illegitemus non carborundum est ("Don't let the bastards grind you down").

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

If you drop the lamb, just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Don't let the hand you hold hold you down.

Voy a hacer un rompeolas con mi alegria pequena. No quiero que sepa el mar que por mi pecho van penas.

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

But I was made of nows, and my feet level on the promissory earth would not accept walking backwards and went forward, forward, mocking the ashes to reach the kiss of new paths. I Was My Own Route

Rio Grande de Loíza!... Río grande. LLanto grande. El más grande de todos nuestros llantos isleños, si no fuera mas grande el que de mí se sale por los ojos del alma para mi esclavo pueblo. Río Grande de Loíza!...Great river. Great flood of tears. The greatest of all our island's tears save those greater that come from the eyes of my soul for my enslaved people.

Happiness doesn't come easily, just because you want or even deserve it, she said. I don't think you're too young to know that. So you've got to find your own way to let that happiness in. Sometimes, when it threatens to get away from you, you have to reach out the window and pull it in, like capturing a bird.

but boys who like the tough sports—boys who are virtually nursed on that potion of hustle, slam, and grunt—they're the ones with the best chance in life.

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Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

You're still in it. You'll always be in it. No, not literally. But in your heart. Nothing ever ends, not if it's gone that deep. You'll always be walking wounded. That's the only choice, after a while. Walking wounded, or dead. Don't you agree?

That's one of the things about life. We're all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don't find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time

When we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully.

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds.