Quotes About Resilience

What's the point of flinching? Whatever is coming comes anyway.

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I've frequently been told things like: "Girl, you've been hanging out with too many white folk" ; "What do you have to be depressed about? If our people could make it through slavery, we can make it through anything" ; "Take your troubles to Jesus, not no damn psychiatrist.

We sat in an awkward silence for some time. I wondered why, after all he had been through with his mother, Eugene welcomed another depressive into his life. Wasn't he afraid of the consequences? How did he escape the contagious effects of mental illness?

I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.

If you've done the best you can-if you have done what you had to do -there is no use worrying about it because nothing can change it .........and you have to be fresh for the next day. What you're going to do is more important than what you have done.

In life, there might be situations that make you sink, It's just to make you stronger than you think, Be like mercury not like glass when you get troubles, Split but join the mercury bits before it's lost in life's puzzles

Success is not served in a tray, To achieve it we have to make our own way, I would like to end by saying that opportunity is within, To fall down on our journey is not a sin, But our failure should not hold our steps forward, And for our dreams, we should never feel awkward

Merline Lovelace

I longed to stabilize my core identity and to withstand the pressure of other people's words, behaviors, moods, and perceptions. I wanted to be less easily thrown.

I worked through memories like weeping wounds. I wrote tedious accounts of petty conflicts and read them aloud to people. I removed layer after layer of rot.

I wade through the rush of neglect and loss and sadness pouring through a hole in my hull.

I know I'm not okay. I am nose to nose with a fire and it's too hot. I want to fix the fire—as if the fire itself were uncomfortable, as if the discomfort I feel were not my own.

I want to say my apartment is no paradise for bachelorettes and would be more accurately described by terms like 'pain clinic', 'wound-care center', or 'half way house' for the chronically triggered, the emotionally dysregulated, the bright but broken-hearted, and a few repeat offenders of adulterous behavior.

Neka no? mora biti posljednja,i nešto mora biti što boli,uvijek.

You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing.

Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand her, she changes. If only I had a son," he said bitterly. Over and over he disparaged her, and George would have thought that Beatrice would be so used to it, she could not be hurt further. But he saw her neck grow stiffer and stiffer.

All living things have an obligation to live as best they can, no matter what pain comes to them.

Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn't do a meeting on the theme she had selected.

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.

Don't let the world walk all over you. show the world who's walking on top.