Quotes About Resilience

They have anger. And they have nothing to lose.

As a group, United States Marines were world-class profanity users,

Always keep your eyes on the horizon, but don't be afraid to tack with the wind. Take the two steps forward when you can, and don't worry about the one step back, as long as it's only a tactical retreat.

die in place or undertake a desperate swim to greener pastures on other islands beckoning in the distance. The moral of the story: There doesn't need to be a pig trapper or a turkey farmer in the equation to cause a mass die-off event; nature can do it all on her own. And nature doesn't care about your schedule, or your personal problems.

Creatures that are able to flee starvation will do so.

Despite the severest deprivation in early childhood, these people are neither living a greedy, me-first style of life, nor are they seeking gain at the expense of others. None express the idea that the world owes them a living for all they have suffered. On the contrary, most of their lives are marked by a compassion for others" (p. 233).

Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.

Make sure you make your focus your focus, see no distraction,think no distraction.Remain focused. Be unstoppable,unshakable and unwavering.

Personal power is the ability to stand on your two feet with a wide smile amid a plethora of universal circumstances that are ready to crush you or devour you.

We must also cultivate courageous energy: the commitment to remain present with whatever arises to consciousness, without grasping or resisting anything that comes to the fore of the mind.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

From suffering I have learned this: That whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her. — Mechtild of Magdeburg

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

Who we thought we were dies when a beloved dies. And it takes a while for a new self to rise, often haltingly, from the ashes of our ravaged hearts.

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man." -Nellie Bly

Weapons formed against God's Israel cannot prosper long, and shall be broken at last.

When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them.

God proportions his people's trials to their strength, and will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able, 1 Cor. 10:13.

It must be the strong affection of the youth, and the espousals, that will carry us on to follow God in a wilderness, with an implicit faith and an entire resignation; and it is a pity that those who have so followed him should ever leave him.

We must not abruptly quit our callings because we have not the success in them we desire.

When you find you've written yourself into a corner, the thing to do is: remove a wall.

that life deal with it,life must go on,if we dont then we find ourself in a black hole which we cant get out of....never ending depression

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.