Quotes About Resilience

Kažu da je bol najja?i kada te neko prvi put povredi i da svaki slede?i put boli manje i ja verujem da u tome ima zrno istine, ali tako?e kažu da svaki put kada ti neko slomi srce granice izdržljivosti postaju sve manje, dok na kraju ne postaneš tvrda i cini?na i nespremna da ikome išta daš.

there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving, rolling over so the tears can drip out of your ears and settling in for a long sleep.

I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.

There is nothing like lying down to bawl and choke, and then rolling over so the tears can drip out of your ears and settling in for a long sleep.

I say to you what I always say when things cannot be altered: count your blessingss.

After that day I decided that never again would I depend on other people. However, putting that resolution into practice was easier said than done.

The contrast between the restrictions placed on him by his shrunken frame and his croaking speech on the one hand, and the power of his mind which allowed him to roam the outer reaches of the universe on the other, provided a fertile source for many imaginative flights of fanciful prose. Moreover

but through accidents of birth, prejudice or illness were less able to help themselves, it was a harsh society where only the fittest survived.

As of the present chaos I could only hope that, by keeping faith, by still trying to give of one's best, a brighter, calmer day might one day.

Some who are fortunate enough to have communities still do fight to keep them, but they have seldom prevailed. While people possess a community, they usually understand that they can't afford to lose it; but after it is lost, gradually even the memory of what was lost is lost.

This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.

If only there were a river of courage, - Rahel whispered. I would bend down, cup the water in my hand and drink.

If you want to leave the park and your child isn't ready to go, give her a hug and say, "You're really upset right now. I know you want to stay, but it's time to leave." Then hold your child and let her experience her feelings before you move on to the next activity. If you were instead to pamper your child by letting her stay at the park longer, she doesn't have the opportunity to learn from experience that she can survive disappointment.

Stress is the space between your thoughts of how life should be and how life really is. This

In fact, a true sense of self-worth does not come from being loved, praised, or showered with goodies. It comes from having skills that provide a sense of capability and resilience to handle the ups and downs and disappointments of life.

It goes without saying that some people become ill rather than change their activities and their environments. They may also become ill, of course, to force themselves to make such changes. End

If you are ill, remember when you were not. Search your life for proofs of your health.

Ann, marked on both wrists by her father's death wish, wandered among ruins and graves, looked out across the desolation of desert as her inheritance, and loved life. How?

She could not cry. She could only sweat. Suffering was a winter luxury.

We're not going to be sad. We're going to be angry until we die. It's the only hope.

not to borrow trouble by worrying about it.

Sometimes the thing that you wanted to do did make you sigh, just because it was a hard thing to do.

They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.

His mother felt that the Sundays may have been a very unfortunate family, and that certainly life was harder in those days during and after the War Between the States, and you had to make your way as best you could, God knew, and Mary Jane Sunday, who had been a Corey, had done the best she could