Quotes About Resilience

I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!

Find a way to learn something from every disappointment.

God never closes a door without opening a window. But we have to look for it." – Sarah Mahoney

In uncharted territory, we need new thinking, new ways of processing intense emotions, and new behavioral choices.

Patience allows you to shift attention in a positive way.

Disasters make us aware that the life force within us needs tending daily. This is why we are here." – Dr. Anne Redelfs

It is our American tradition to come together in times of tragedy. This is how we grow as a people and as a nation.

We need to find the humility to admit that we are indeed powerless and helpless so we can take the first steps in finding ways to heal. – Dr. Thomas Demaria

Although we have had significant losses, we did not lose our most important things: our health, our children, and those we love.

Getting up and putting on your shoes after a disaster is a badge of honor." -- Dr. Thomas Demaria

True healing is when you somehow transform the nature of how you perceive what you have gone through." -- Dr. Thomas Demaria

We have to expect the unexpected and keep going, even without a map or direction.

There is no "new normal" because becoming habituated to severe pain is neither "normal" nor healthy.

We can plan our work and work our plan; however, being organized and methodical will not protect us from the unexpected.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life. Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

What is important is remembering that we are here on this planet to surrender, have patience, and allow ourselves to love and be loved. Crises help us to learn these things."--Lynn Robinson

I get a kick out of people who talk like it only happened to them," says lawyer Denis Kelly. "I wonder, 'Didn't you notice that everybody else is going through it?

Focus on what you have instead of what you don't have. It's a gorgeous day. I live in the United States of America. I have freedom. I can go to work. Nothing lasts and this, too, will pass." -- Chellie Campbell

Mother Earth is always giving, even if it's a lesson. She is always giving." –Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Getting angry because you cannot will yourself to push through it at your old pace will sabotage the pace of healing. Patience gives you the grace to slow down and let your soul catch up in its own time and in its own way.

You are like a baby bird that has fallen out of the nest, too weak and fragile to fly back. You need to learn how to feed yourself soul vitamins so that you can regain your energy and the will to live fully.