Quotes About Resilience

Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.

the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.

This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow.

There are stories you'll learn if you're strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.

Every now and then I could see myself—truly see myself—and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was the woman with the hole in her heart.

That place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. It's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.

There are so many things to be tortured about. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let someone who doesn't love you be one of them.

Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.

It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it's reasonable for any human to be.

Don't worry about it too much. You're green, but you're tough. And tough is what matters the most out here. Not just anyone could do what you're doing.

But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really—all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

The PCT had gotten easier for me, but that was different from it getting easy.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

The particularity of our problems can be made bearable only through the recognition of our universal humanity. We suffer uniquely, but we survive the same way.

Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to hum as I hiked, though humming proved too difficult to do while also panting and moaning in agony and trying to remain hunched in that remotely upright position while also propelling myself forward when I felt like a building with legs.

I knew that if I allowed fear to over take me, my journey was doomed.

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Allow your acceptance of that to be a transformative experience. You do that by simply looking it square in the face and then moving on. You don't have to move fast or far. You can go just an inch. You can mark your progress breath by breath.

But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really—all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me.