Quotes About Resilience

During difficult times I often turn to a gospel song called "Stand." In it, songwriter Donnie McClurkin sings, "What do you do when you've done all you can, and it seems like it's never enough? What do you give when you've given your all, and it seems like you can't make it through?" The answer lies in McClurkin's simple refrain: "You just stand.

Even as an adult, as I tried to sleep, my mind was conditioned to stay in a constant state of arousal, prepared for attack.

The true power of staying in the now means that you resist projecting what might happen in the future or lamenting past mistakes.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life.

If, the first two months of life, a child experienced high adversity with minimal relational buffering but was then put into a healthier environment for the next twelve years, their outcomes were worse than the outcomes of children who had low adversity and healthy relational connection in the first two months but then spent the next twelve years with high adversity

Everything that happened to you can be used to strengthen you, if you allow it, if you're open to it.

Qué hacer cuando ya hiciste todo lo que puedes y parece que nunca es suficiente? ¿Qué más dar cuando te has dado por completo y parece que no lo vas a lograr?". La respuesta está en el coro de McClurkin: "Sólo mantente de pie". Ahí

power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

My highest achievement: never shutting down my heart. Even in my darkest moments—through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals—I remained faithful, hopeful, and willing to see the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I continued to believe that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

Maya Angelou was so right. Whatever you're going through, you will do just that: go through it. It will pass. So say thank-you now. Because you know the rainbow is coming.

The true measure of your courage is not whether you reach your goal—it's whether you decide to get back on your feet no matter how many times you've failed.

Turn your wounds into wisdom

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

The thing you fear most has no power - it is what has the power.

You're saying thank-you," Maya said, "because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank-you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank-you!

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them. (p.191)

But despair is what keeps love alive.

I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.

for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.

la muerte no es el final de todo, eso seguro. Pero, tal y como está escrito en todos los libros, es algo que produce un dolor increíble.

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