Quotes About Resilience

I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!

So happy ending all round, more or less. I know you're relieved. But much as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we are sitting down to the feast.

Breaking down does not have to mean reaching a catastrophe.

We need to pick ourselves up out of the relapse, give ourselves a gentle, firm, kind talking to, and move on. Beating ourselves up and dwelling on the past keeps us stuck and overfocused on ourselves.

Sometimes we need to allow ourselves to break down so we can choose different bricks to build ourselves back up.

This painful mental illness is not fair, but saying it is not fair does not change anything. Thinking that you should not have to work so hard to get through everyday life with someone with BPD does not change the fact that this is what you need to do.

the ability to cope effectively with daily problems and responses does not depend on willpower. Solving problems and tolerating distress requires skill power,

Willingness is giving up trying to control behaviors or outcomes. By giving up control you can do what is needed in any situation. Willingness is wholehearted, spontaneous participation, responding to situations as needed, without resentment or preconceived ideas of what has to be done, how to do it, or when to do it.

Spirituality centered in love is hard work, but it is solid granite. Because love doesn't insist on who is right, it isn't at risk when we are shown wrong. It simply is a commitment to a foundational set of values – and a values commitment is something that no one else can take away.

continues: For Kit, the Depression has brought big changes: a houseful of boarders, tons of chores, and no birthday party. But when Kit's taste for adventure gets her into trouble, she discovers that

Well, the people at the bank won't just kick us out onto the street, will they?" asked Kit. "Yes," said Charlie. "That's exactly what they'll do. You've seen those pictures in the newspapers of whole families and all their belongings out on the street with nowhere to go." "That is not going to happen to us," said Kit fiercely. "It's not." "I hope not," said Charlie.

Charlie grinned a cheerless grin and tapped one finger on Kit's newspaper. "That's your headline, isn't it?" he said. "These days a lot of things happen that aren't fair. There's no one to blame, and there's nothing that can be done about it." Charlie's voice sounded tired, as if he'd grown old all of a sudden. "You better get used to it, Kit. Life's not like books. There's

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

although he was built like an aging prizefighter, the ring had definitely won the last round.

Sometimes there's comfort in wrapping oneself in aloneness, witnessing your own pain.

No les quedaba nada más que coraje.

Dear God, give me the strength to hold fast to my dreams and the commitment to stop wavering in the face of adversity. Help me establish goals that are in keeping with my values and with Your intentions for my life. Amen.

When you look back over your life, what are the three greatest ways God brought you through a challenge or set you up for victory?

If you want your place in the sun you've got put up with a few blisters.

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

Find the Grace in the things you can't change, and help somebody if you can.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.