Quotes About Resilience

jaqueline wilson

the 21st Century is really a terrible time to be a control freak.

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

Mies joka ei ole hankala on kuin soutuvene jossa ei ole hankaimia. Se menee minne vesi tahtoo ja vie.

Karkealla kouralla elämä tahkoaa hymyä naamalta pois.

Älkää hymyilkö nähdessänne minut, sillä minun hymyni ei hyydy koskaan.

Sisyfos optimistina: Vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu.

Ei se että tunnistaa vääryyden, vaan että sietää sen.

Köyhä vihaa rikasta luonnostaan, sen on verissä. Tulee aina hetki jolloin lompakkokreivit pannaan lyhtytolppaan niin kuin sika teurauskoukkuun. Sitten sika syödään. Mutta kasvaa uusia, jotka lihovat kuin niitä ruokitaan. Kunnes kävelevät kahdella jalalla kuin sadussa.

Joskus katselen rystysteni arpia, muistelen lapsuuden opetuksia. 'Jos ovi ei aukene, se aukaistaan.

I am the Love Cactus. Make desert to me.

I want to grow a flower for every time someone tells me F*** you." Then I'll go back to that person and pin the flower on their lapel in a gesture of friendship. And while they are looking down on it in astonishment, I'll bunch up my knuckles and punch them in the face.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I'd be OK.

Love means never having to say you're sorry for a minor stab wound.

My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.

The worst is yet to come: I'm still alive.

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

I had accepted beatings, loneliness, and near-starvation as normal because those things had helped me to survive. Now when these women undressed me, it felt like they were removing a shield that had become a part of me. As they peeled off layer after layer, I began to feel my age and started crying. With my tears I shed each fiber of responsibility I had in caring for my sisters and brother. I was finally being cared for as a child, and so the child inside me opened wide.

I began to appreciate myself more by breaking the rules. I was putting myself in charge of why I was not going home, so having no home didn't hurt the way pain does when you have no control.

Yes, you got enough mothering to survive, but not enough for the kind of foundation that supports healthy self-confidence, initiative, resilience, trust, healthy entitlement, self-esteem, and the many other qualities we need to thrive in this challenging world.

When you feel that you aren't like everyone else or feel tainted by what has happened to you, it's hard to be optimistic about the future. In fact, for many survivors, it's nearly impossible to imagine the future at all. Many of us are caught in a state where we're still just trying to survive (our sole focus during trauma) and can't think much beyond that. Time for us is frozen and the future feels hazy at best.

in a happy home Mother seems to have enough to provide for everyone without resentment. She seems to enjoy giving! (This may be a shock for those whose experience has been quite different.)