Quotes About Resilience

Keep the home fires burning,While your hearts are yearning;Though your lads are far awayThey dream of home.There's a silver liningThrough the dark cloud shining;Turn the dark cloud inside out,Till the boys come home.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

It's not the load that breaks you down - it's the way you carry it!

I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.

Whatever gets you through the night. It's alright. It's alright.

Sergeant Gavin Sutherland

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Deep breathing helps when your heart falls out of your chest. I learned this from the

Julia." It is hard to tell. The blisters didn't help either. In fact, they made

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Bean Sprout.

When a child is traumatized, something more discrete and more specific happens than a general loss of capacity for love and work. An ever-present, ever-draining abscess forms. The child goes on living an ordinary life. But if something touches the traumatic "abscess," the child hurts.

The phrase learn how to walk on bound feet was what struck me the hardest. I suddenly realized that I would never walk naturally again.

Traditionally the strongest weapon that a Chinese woman had was suicide.

What are we going to do in the face of what we remember? (Langston Hughes)

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

Los crueles son los debiles; la bondad sólo puede esperarse de los fuertes.

You are all you have. Therefore, make yourself the most beautiful, tender, wonderful, fantastic person in the world. And then you will always survive.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.