Quotes About Resilience

Rule 1. All problems (or dreams) are figureoutable. Rule 2. If a problem is not figureoutable, it's not really a problem—it's a fact of life or law of nature (e.g., death or gravity). Rule 3. You may not care enough to figure this problem out or achieve this particular dream. That's okay. Find another problem or dream that ignites a blazing fire in your heart and go back to Rule 1.

What can I learn from this? How can this work for me?

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt

The fastest way out of our fear is through it.

I say this because deep in my bones I am that certain everything really is figureoutable. Yes, even if you're starting from scratch. Even if you've already tried and failed. Even if you don't have a clue what the hell you're doing or why things keep going wrong. Even if the world has told you time and time again that you can't. Even if you've been born into extraordinary challenges or find yourself with the deck stacked against you.

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. Viktor E. Frankl

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it." It's part of a longer passage, which reads:

This isn't always possible, but train yourself to move toward discomfort. Put yourself in situations that feel scary and intimidating—that's where the figureoutable magic is!

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. Haruki Murakami

You never get stronger if you only do easy things. I didn't want fear to calcify in my bones. I refuse to energetically shrink down into a smaller, less capable me. Just because I made a mistake and messed up didn't mean I was going to give up.

You're not broken or weak if you're afraid. You're human.

You might have heard that "fear" is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. Or maybe you roll with the cheeky edition: Fuck Everything and Run. I prefer the more actionable version: Face Everything and Rise.

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

Avoidance doesn't extinguish your fear, action does.

Marie G. McIntyre

Suffering is just part of the great tapestry of life.

One day it happens: what you have feared all your life, the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.

All this while the little panel of pine wood remained over the chimney in the mill-kitchen with the cuckoo clock and the waxen Calvary, and sometimes it seemed to Nello a little hard that whilst his gift was accepted he himself should be denied.

Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don't last forever, you know. But I'll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

any moment now that sun would burst into a ball of flame, a furnace to stifle the heart of Petites Cendres, his soul felt blood-raw, liquefied deep down inside him, in a pale, cold sea where the need that gnawed at him would break your heart, a fire burnt out, his heart, that dog should not have been there on Esmeralda or Bahama Street, hunger tottering on all fours, night-prowling around the Porte du Baiser Saloon where he just would not stop living despite all odds

los conflictos son útiles porque aportan fluidez a un mundo demasiado estático.

This anthology is a testament to American Indian consciousness continuing to circulate, regardless of past or present genocidal attempts, whether cerebral, endemic, systematic, or otherwise.