Quotes About Resilience

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

Impermanence can teach you a lot about how to cheer up.

Pero bajo la dureza de esta armadura, se oculta la terneza de una genuina tristeza

Trying to cheer yourself up isn't easy, and sometimes it feels hypocritical, like going against the grain. But the reminder is that if you want to change your habitual stuckness, you're the only one who can do it.

If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be exterminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation.

The waves just keep coming and knocking you down, but you stand up again and with some sense of rousing yourself, standing up.

Emotions cannot take off and escalate if the mind is steady.

push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

So have a good journey home, and always remember—never give up!

We can make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.

we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice. If

Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness.

Al principio de nuestro matrimonio, mi esposo me dijo que yo era una de las personas más valientes que conocía. Cuando le pregunté por qué, me dijo que porque era una cobarde total, pero a pesar de todo seguía adelante y hacía las cosas.

We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right now we are creating our state of mind for tomorrow, not to mention this afternoon, next week, next year, and all the years of our lives.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. —SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A

When something hurts in life, we don't usually think of it as our path or as the source of wisdom. In fact, we think that the reason we're on the path is to get rid of this painful feeling.

An analogy for bodhichitta is the rawness of a broken heart. Sometimes this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment, and blame.

In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.

We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are.

the only time we ever know what's really going on is when the rug's been pulled out and we can't find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep. Right now—in the very instant of groundlessness—is the seed of taking care of those who need our care and of discovering our goodness.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.