Quotes About Resilience

When faced with life's most challenging events, it's okay not to be okay.

A few of the confined, especially with succor from the outside as well as inside, will tap the grandeur of mind and spirit to fight off this spirit death and guard their humanity. Many others, though, will descend into the hellhole of prison-life to become themselves, even if released, a hell-making force. Or perhaps as is even more frequent, they remain so steeped in trauma and the prison's pervasive dread that they are without resources for life when released. They

American slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the bible in every sense of the word: embraced them, endured them, seized them, stolen them, caught them and captured them. Allen Dwight Callahan, The Talking Book

The crucified God takes believers on a journey into earth, into its pain and suffering, and finds in that journey not the holiness of pain but the wonder of life's power to persist and transform. The way of the crucified God seeks God in earth's humanity, which has been abandoned, rejected, and despised, the people who know life amid their struggle.

We're so far from having any control over what happens to us, it's not even funny. Well, that's not true, actually. It is funny.

As usual, though, if you find yourself running into a wall, stop running into a wall!

As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother Earth' is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan.

You don't actually get over things… you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

As one widow put it to me, "Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

As psychologist James Hillman reminds us, "Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Sprouts then grow from the oak stumps and, over the years, mature into multiple trees sharing the same base and root system. These oaks are referred to as "coppice oaks" (Figure 10.6). Other trees can do this, but because oaks tend to be harvested the most, they are the most likely to reappear as coppice trees. Figure 10.6 Coppice oaks grown from the

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

Mi papá te hubiera puesto a hacer cien lagartijas por todo este gimoteo. -No si antes me rompiera mis malditas costillas, amiga. Me siento como Rihanna tras una noche de pasión.

The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.

Leaders don't try to make people unhappy. However, leaders just know, progress is always preceded by change." "And some people don't like change

It's common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of relatively good health.

Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band's twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the 'mature' thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.

Frustration is a poignant reminder of ongoing vitality. Enjoy it while you can't.

Great souls suffer in silence. JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER During