Quotes About Resilience

You can't sail straight into the wind, and if you only know how to sail with the wind at your back, you will only go where the wind blows you. But if you know how to use the wind's energy and are patient, you can sometimes get where you want to go. You can still be in control

In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

It's not a matter of letting go—you would if you could. Instead of Let it go, we should probably say Let it be.

The more you practice, the more skill you can develop in reducing pain or at least becoming more transparent to it, so that it is less eroding of your quality of life.

El dolor emocional, el dolor de nuestro corazón y el dolor de nuestra mente son mucho más dañinos y habituales que el dolor físico.

know that things unfold according to their own nature. We can remember to let our lives unfold in the same way. We don't have to let our anxieties and our desire for certain results dominate the quality of the moment, even when things are painful. When we have to push, we push. When we have to pull, we pull. But we know when not to push too, and when not to pull.

Mindfulness is now more relevant than ever as an effective and dependable counterbalance to strengthen our health and well-being, and perhaps our very sanity.

There is more right with you than wrong with you"—those

You can't stop the waves but you can learn how to surf.

Personal motivations to live are known to sometimes influence survival.

Acceptance of the present moment has nothing to do with resignation in the face of what is happening. It simply means a clear acknowledgment that what is happening is happening. Acceptance doesn't tell you what to do. What happens next, what you choose to do, that has to come out of your understanding of this moment.

If you are mindful as emotional storms occur, perhaps you will see in yourself an unwillingness to accept things as they already are, whether you like them or not. Perhaps that part of you that does see this has, in one way or another, already come to terms with what has happened or with your situation. Perhaps, at the same time, it recognizes that your feelings still need to play themselves out, that they are not ready to accept the situation or to calm down, and that this too is all right.

In the darkness time, no human can save you, only the sacred divine light.

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

Stand firm on the solid rock!

It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God's children will one day fall.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead. A Passion Most Pure

Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead.

Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don't, well darlin' that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray.

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.