Quotes About Resilience

not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive. Come what may, they support my soul. They hold my soul up. A tree may have many branches and many leaves, and only a few roots, yet it is the roots that are strong, resilient, and powerful.

At eighteen years old, she found herself pregnant with my sister, and at nineteen pregnant again with my other sister. The abuse, beating, yelling, and belittling never stopped. At twenty-four years, she was pregnant again, and there I was, born into it.

I remember one really horrible fight when he was tearing into my mother—and then he came after me with a fury I had never seen before. I was beaten bloody that night.

hear the damning things Emmitt said to me. Because of his cruelty, for many years, I didn't feel as if I deserved to be happy or successful. I didn't feel worthy because I had his voice resonating in my head, telling me that I was nothing, that I was horrible, that I didn't deserve anything good in life. When you grow up being told those things every day, they take root in your subconscious and undermine every positive event in your life.

energy, all your hopes—into a dream, then meeting the hard knocks of failure over and over again, falling down and getting up…having to push yourself up to rise and try again for seven long years.

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.

night I'd ever felt in Atlanta. And the heat was out in the theater. I was sitting in the dressing room, angry, frustrated, and feeling empty and hopeless. I was so agitated with disappointment that I couldn't sit still. I stood up and started pacing back and forth and speaking out loud to God. "You bring me out to these moments and you never see me through. What's going on?

Every national promoter I had spoken with during the past seven years, every one who had turned me down, now had offers in hand to take me on tour. Before long I was playing arenas with 20,000 seats and filling every one of them.

I believe that everything that happens to you can work together for your good because I believe everything you deal with in this life is all for a reason and is supposed to make you a better person.

Everything that happens to you in this life, if you conquer it, if you beat it, you've won. Embrace every day you get.

Wear your pain like lip gloss!

A pair of Blahniks and a girl can vanquish anything

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3

BUT I'M NOT A VICTIM; I GROW FROM IT, AND I LEARN. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF.

Do your homework, even if you gotta assign it yourself. Then leave your ill-prepared competition in the highlighter dust, because they can't keep up with your laser-focused Smize.

When one door of opportunity slams shut in your face, you don't turn around and go home, boo. Oh, no. You just go through that side door, and if that's closed, go through the back door, the cellar door, the attic—just get in the damn house!

The important thing is to keep your eyes on the road and keep going. Stay focused. Don't stop. Don't turn back. And don't forget to enjoy the wild ride.

Sjecanje na nase tuge sprecava nas da vidimo patnju drugih. Koji evropski ili azijski narod na kraju I &II Sv Rata nije bio preokupiran previjanjem bezbrojnih rana.

La plupart de ceux qui sont morts en héros dans les camps sont des croyants : des

The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

Bugün demokrasimiz, ne katilleri bulunmam?? fidan gibi delikanl?lar?n kanl? kefenlerine sar?l?p unutturulabilir, ne de milyonluk kredi ya?malar?yla sat?n al?nabilir. Emekçi Türk halk?, örgüt deste?i ve demokratik bilinciyle sa?c? yönetimlerin bu kara dehlizini de geçecektir. Kimsenin ?üphesi olmas?n. Aslan?n s?rt?nda hükmetmeye özenenler de bir gün bu aslana yem olurlar.

Not until you succeed in being really flexible and soft, can you become really strong and forceful. —Zen Buddhist proverb