Quotes About Resilience

For now, I do what I know keeps me just about level. Exercise definitely helps me, as does yoga and absorbing myself in something or someone I love, so I keep doing these things. I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided she was a volcano. And like a volcano, she couldn't run away from her self. She'd have to stay there in 10 to that wasteland. She could plan a forest inside of herself

On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

The thing is what you are going through is not really negative. The negativity of it all is just a product of your mind. It will only become negative once you let yourself believe that it is.

Y. Stemple, tells a heartfelt story about a young

the war metaphor is misleading, incomplete—even arguably dead wrong. Your immune system isn't a war machine. It's a peacekeeping force that more than anything else seeks to create harmony.

For roughly the millionth time in his life he asked himself, Is there any way I can just ignore this and get on with my day? and he reflected that it was the minor slights that were the hardest to let pass.

Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around.

to acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it." Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order

April, she had died. April could still be a very cold month in Ithaca, though it was certainly not the best month for dying of exposure. A depressed person would have a better bet walking along the edge of one of the gorges and "accidentally" falling in. Of course the man Jessop had done neither; hand-making his daughter's tombstone had probably kept him too occupied to even consider suicide. Yes. That was it; that was the key. An act of creation in the face of loss.

It never fails," Montrose said. "No matter what they do to you, afterwards it's like nothing happened. You're supposed to just be grateful you're still breathing.

From this result mental weakness, general incapacity, and unfitness for hard work.

Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade, With a free, onward impulse brushing through, By night, the silverd branches of the glade.

Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

Still nursing the unconquerable hope,Still clutching the inviolable shade.

We cannot kindle when we willThe fire that in the heart resides,The spirit bloweth and is still,In mystery our soul abides.

And amongst us one,Who most has suffered, takes dejectedlyHis seat upon the intellectual throne.

Charge once more, then, and be dumb!Let the victors, when they come,When the forts of folly fall,Find thy body by the wall.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

The world in which we live and moveOutlasts aversion, outlasts love:Outlasts each effort, interest, hope,Remorse, grief, joy.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Tis the gradual furnace of the world, In whose hot air poor spirits are upcurl'd Until they crumple, or else grow like steel- Which kills in us the bloom, the youth, the spring- Which leaves the fierce necessity to feel, But takes away the power- this can avail, By drying up our joy in everything, To make our former pleasures all seem stale. - Tristram and Iseult