Quotes About Resilience

It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected to be perfect.

While those individuals with more severe emotional disturbances will need the help of a mental health professional, individuals with more manageable problems can benefit by using the newly developed "common sense

Hope alone is a powerful antidepressant.

For example, in answer to "I never do anything right," you could write, "Forget that! I do some things right and some wrong, just like everyone else. I fouled up on my appointment, but let's not blow this up out of proportion.

Don't be afraid to ask other people how they would answer an upsetting thought if you can't figure out the appropriate rational response on your own.

Unadorned suffering is the bedmate of masculine growth. Only by staying intimate with your personal suffering can you feel through it to its source.

If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one.

You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

can't fix the roof when it's raining, and when the sun comes out the roof don't leak no more. The

The trouble with doing things that others said were impossible, Daniel thought, is that people keep coming up with other impossible things. Eventually they're likely to be right.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous. Who made up that rule? It's a known fact...

Belgarath and Garion effortlessly hurdled over the driftwood and loped off into the fog. It's going to be a wet day, Garion noted soundlessly as he ran alongside the great silver wolf. Your fur won't melt. I know, but my paws get cold when they're wet. I'll have Durnik make you some little booties. That would be absolutely ridiculous, Grandfather, Garion said indignantly.

Being afraid was not the sort of thing that endangered life or limb, but it was still an injury of sorts – and sometimes a deeper and more serious kind of injury.

You're going to stay here and help Daran in every way you can. Don't let him sink into melancholia the way his father has...Now, pull yourself together. Blow your nose and fix your face. Daran's talking to the Rivan Warder right now. I'll take you to where they are, and then I have to leave. You're not even going to stay for the funeral? I've got the funeral in my heart, Pol, the same as you have. No amount of ceremony's going to make it go away. Now go fix your face. You look awful.

I've seen hopeless wars won before. If you give in to despair before you begin, you'll have no chance at all.

If you can't do something about a situation, there's no point in worrying about it.

Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have.

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

Events are like horses, Hettar told him. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be time to put everything together.

Fear's a part of life, Mandorallen, and it's the only life we have. You'll get used to it. After you've put it on every morning like an old tunic, you won't even notice it anymore. Sometimes laughing at it helps—a little." "Laughing?" "It shows the fear that you know it's there, but that you're going to go ahead and do what you have to do anyway.

If that's the way we have to do it, then that's the way we'll do it.

Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.