Quotes About Resilience

If you're at the end of your rope...untie the knot in your heart.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather

no matter what you're going through, that you will get through.

Do not wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you're zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

I know this is scary. You're hungry and cold and you want to give up! But you can't turn on each other! Not now! Show me how brave you can be by pulling together! Do it for each other! That's the trick! Because when you reach out--when you extend yourself for other people-- that's when you're without fear!

Whenever I think I've had an uphill battle, I remember Matt Murdock. Not just because he's blind, although even with his other senses hyper-enhanced, that is a climb. And not because he's become a world famous lawyer despite his impairment. But because being Daredevil has cost him everything more than once, more than twice and yet he still suits up any time there's trouble. Because he is a man without fear. Spider-Man

Under Saddam Hussein, speaking Kurdish was against the law, which effectively made it a dying language - like a dialect of Native American Cherokee, it didn't have much use outside of the tribe. By speaking it, it seemed I was touching the very soul of every man and woman in the room, and they weren't shy about telling me how much it meant to them.

From "I Exist" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. His mother thought he was a loser His father thought he was a bum Plenty of times he felt like running But he really had nowhere to run He fought it with everything he had With his brains and with his fists And whenever anyone told him he was nobody He'd tell himself "I exist

Gradually, moment by moment, you may have come to realize that although you can't stop the unsettling thoughts from arising in your mind, you can stop what happens next. You can stop the vicious circle from feeding off itself. The

Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.

I can't swim farther than from here to the far side of a whiskey glass.

My only point is that it's also possible once in a while to do everything right and still have things go wrong.

Remember this law of balance: Increase the number of approaches and decrease the impact of rejection. Susan

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

The church was the most important institution in Poor Valley. It served as a family of families and helped that larger family push back against the uglier potencies of nature: weather, disease, death, and the darkness in one's own heart.