Quotes About Resilience

Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to. You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.

I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn't even a sentence yet. But I had some syllables, some new sounds. The first halves of the sentences I was accumulating were solid. I trusted them.

The feelings are overwhelming, but they're not you. They're the feelings. You are separate, and you are strong and amazing and good.

I think everyone has one day like this, and some people have more than one. It's the day of the accident, the midlife crisis, the breakdown, the meltdown, the walkout, the sellout, the giving up, giving away, or giving in. The day you stop drinking, or the day you start. The day you know things will never be the same again

Change is the nature of life, Cassidy. Some of it's good, like new babies being born and children growing up and leaving home and all the new adventures that both of those things bring. And sometimes change is more difficult - like when your dad died. But it's nothing to fear. Good or bad, when we rise up to meet it, change can make us stronger. It's what moved us farther along down the road ahead.

Another trembling leaf, eh? Well, it happens. She'll get over it." Sergeant Marge isn't exactly the warm and fuzzy type.

Heather Vogel Frederick

Hope. Such a tiny word. Such a powerful word.

I'll have to figure it out for myself. That's thge problem with life. It's not really a spectator sport.

Part of being a parent is rolling with the punches, so consider an unexpected pregnancy the universe's way of helping you to learn to do that.

Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.

If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn

Things are never as bad as they seem. —Miss Maudie, To Kill a Mockingbird

The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. —The Wizard of Oz

Just when we think we've figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. —Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be. —Martha Washington

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be. —Martha Washington I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try. —Bart Simpson If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn Choose people who will lift you up. —Michelle Obama

is often when night looks darkest, that one senses the gathering momentum for change.

I think I'm afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens. —Charlie Brown

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. —Robert Burns

Unhappiness isn't the worst thing in the world. It doesn't last forever and it usually teaches you something about yourself.

Polly había llorado tanto que se sentía deshidratada. El llanto juvenil es una cosa y el llanto adulto otra muy distinta. Las lágrimas de la juventud son limpiadoras, como las siestas o las duchas tonificantes. Una buena llorera hace que el joven que sufre sienta que se ha conseguido algo. Las lágrimas de la edad adulta dejan a la víctima seca y agotada. Dejan los ojos escocidos. Dejan a su paso un dolor bajo las costillas y en la frente.

Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.

I believe we each have the opportunity to undergo thousands of little deaths and rebirths everyday. Each time we do, we free up space to live more fully in tune with who we really are, and to go where we are being called to go.