Quotes About Resilience

the saint of lost things, and lost causes too

What riches there once were, what beauties! Raindrops on roses and crop tops on cuties. Now it's just tear gas and water hoses, and Mexican children tied up with strings. These are a few of their favourite things. Quarry every mountain, wreck every stream.

Throwing yourselves into recovery doesn't mean hiding from grief, pain, misery, aching. It just means you go with the present experience—when these emotions come, you open up to them and let them in—but you choose to get up in the morning and get out in the knowledge that, if you want to win this fight for survival, you've got to step up and take control.

the majority of people are resilient in the face of trauma, and recover to pre-trauma physical and emotional functioning without the need of professional assistance; that certain "protective factors" have been shown to promote positive responses to trauma; and that parenting styles following significantly stressful life experiences have a substantial impact on children's functioning.

Everything happens for a reason. "Let me be crystal clear: If you've faced a tragedy and someone tells you in any way, shape, or form that your tragedy was meant to be, that it happened for a reason, that it will make you a better person, or that taking responsibility for it will fix it, you have every right to remove them from your life," writes blogger Tim Lawrence.

cogitationis poenam nemo patitur!1.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Beth: "What are you, the Energizer Bunny?

The soul can't breathe without hope. Torture is to keep living after your soul has died.

There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.

This dog won't hunt. This horse won't jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won't burn, the kindling is wet, and the faint glow of the ember is weak and dying. He has no other choice then but to let It go and take a nap on the ground there, lying Next to her—for whom Dame Fortune has more Woes and tribulations yet in store.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

What humiliation when someone who stood next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or when someone heard the shepherd boy singing and again I heard nothing. Such misfortune brought me to the edge of despair, and I might have brought an end to my life—only my art held me back.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Come when thou will: I shall meet thee bravely.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

If you met a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they had tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Trying to figure out what happened to me isn't important. It's what I do with what I've learned that counts.

Fuck them all. I ought to have that tattooed on my forehead, for all the times I've thought it.

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.