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Quotes About Resilience

A esperança de ser aliviado lhe dá ânimo para sofrer.
~ Marcel Proust
Firm they might have stood, yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.
~ John Milton
Out of our evil seek to bring forth good
~ John Milton
47: Equal in strength, and rather then be less 48: Car'd not to be at all; with that care lost 49: Went all his fear:
~ John Milton
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam;
~ John Milton
But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, that they may stumble on, and deeper fall
~ John Milton
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
~ John Milton
Trauma occurs when something happens that's too horrible for your brain to deal with, so you just store it away. Over time, the horrible thing, which is still there, starts coming out in a variety of ugly ways, causing mental problems that you don't even associate with the trauma because it happened so long ago.
~ John Moe
Depression steals your ability to feel happy and proud even at the moments you should be happiest and proudest.
~ John Moe
Depression lies," said Jenny Lawson . "Because every single time, it says, 'You'll never come out of this again. You are absolutely worthless, your family is better off without you.' And then I remind myself depression lies. Those things are lies.
~ John Moe
there is nothing more intoxicating for a depressed person with an alcoholic parent in his past than being told you are loved and wanted.
~ John Moe
therefore all childish fear must be put away.
~ John Muir
We turned and sailed away, joining the outgoing bergs, while gloria in excels is still seemed to be sounding over all the white landscape, and our burning hearts were ready for any fate, feeling that whatever the future might have in store, the treasures we had gain would enrich our lives forever.
~ John Muir
feeling sure that I would learn something and at the same time get rid of a severe bronchial cough that followed an attack of the grippe and had troubled me for three months. I intended to camp on the glacier every night, and did so, and my throat grew better every day until it was well, for no lowland microbe could stand such a trip.
~ John Muir
Ci sono anche alcuni ginepri (Juniperus occidentalis) piccoli e tozzi, dalla corteccia color cannella e il fogliame grigio, che se ne stanno per lo più solitari, aggrappati alla pietra battuta dal sole, al sicuro dal fuoco: gran montanaro, quest'albero, robusto, resistente a tutte le interperie, si nutre di sole e di neve e con questa dieta riesce a mantenersi in buona salute anche per un migliaio d'anni.
~ John Muir
But we little know until tried, how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging us across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.
~ John Muir
Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!
~ John Newman
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
~ John Newton
On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you.
~ John O'Donohue
May the expectation in other eyes Never decide how you are to be;
~ John O'Donohue
Our grounding in the soul means that regardless of how badly we think of ourselves, there is a wholesomeness in us that no one has ever been able to damage.
~ John O'Donohue
May you come to recognize That though your body is imprisoned, No one can imprison your mind. May all the time you have on your hands Bring you into new friendship with your mind
~ John O'Donohue
Real presence is the ideal of all true individuation. When we yield to helplessness, we strengthen the hand of those who would destroy.
~ John O'Donohue
A lot of experiences that we have in the world are torn, broken, hard experiences, and in broken, difficult, lonesome experiences you earn a quality of light that is very precious. I often think of it as quarried light.
~ John O'Donohue