Quotes About Resilience

Long ago, she'd learned that life could be bitterly disappointing if allowed. There were blows and stumbles, but your job was to stay interested in the world.

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

So instead of writing about Gia, a witch who uses her powers to fight for a man, I'm fighting for myself.

Shane was the memory she couldn't escape. The bridge she'd never burn. The

You're a sane person reacting to an insane situation.

By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It's so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y'all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.

During his lost years, he hadn't wanted people to see how unstable he was. Of course, sobriety had shown him that everyone was a little bit off. His shit was just closer to the surface.

No one's coming to save you. You have to do it.

No one will deny me this—the least of all you, you mean-girl midget. Fuck you if you think I'm staying away from him.

But what fully realized person doesn't? No one expects men to be flaw-free. Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

to live, no money. I don't know what, or when, or how. But I do know who. With the utmost certainty, I know who.

By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.

This isn't about him. It's about me. Occupying all the space I need to. Standing tall in exactly who the hell I am. A damned good mom and writer with a terrible disability who overcomes it every day and whose best work is ahead of her and whose ass is perched for the gawds in her dress.

Her teenage fury had morphed into something else: power.

This ability makes us more available to all of life. It builds self-confidence and inner strength.

Change comes when we have sat in the pain long enough and fully enough so that we can feel it, can open our mouths and talk about it, see it for what it is, reorder and understand it, and then walk out of it. This does not mean that we won't feel bad, hurt, angry, or triggered about our past again. It just means that if and when we are triggered, we won't catapult into an unconscious place from which we can only act out, shut down, or dive straight into self-medicating behaviors.

Nothing is better, no reward greater than our true connection with ourselves, and through that we can reach out and really touch another. Working through trauma pulls us from the surface of life into the wellspring from which we learn who we really are.

In working through the pain of a traumatic past, it is important to help clients to identify not only what hurt them, but what sustained them.

Winning is not life, fighting for third place is.

No, but it's your reality now. Put on your big-boy pants and deal with it.

It's easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you're left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open. So fuck you and your fucking talk because nothing short of a miracle could take back the last nine months of hell you put me through!" - Paul Hudson