Quotes About Resilience

As it relates to healing the wounds of trauma, it is a journey from helplessness (which is the essence of trauma) to mastery.

Our goal is to move from being stuck in survival mode back into blossoming and into life. We want to thrive, not just survive.

You experience a change in how you see yourself, transitioning from feeling like a victim to someone who has not only survived but has healed.

Living with a high level of emotional reactivity is hell. It's no fun for you and no fun for people around you. You feel sensitive about everything and feel like life never lets you rest. Being reactive is essentially feeling chronically overwhelmed.

You grieve what you lost and what you never had. If you try to short-circuit the grief, the grief will find a way to short-circuit you.

Cognitively oriented therapists believe that we contribute to our own suffering by holding on to outdated beliefs and conclusions that keep us stuck in a particular story.

when he says that most of us find adversity unacceptable; we live in child's fantasy that everything should work out as we want it to. Like so many Buddhists before him, Fischer recognizes that suffering is universal. It happens to everybody. Yet embracing it offers us a key. "It is exactly in digesting the profundity of our difficulties that life opens up to us," Fischer says.6

Do you know what we call windows in Belgrade?' she asked. All our windows are broken and crisscrossed with scotch tape. 'Windows 99.

The irrational fear gene lives on in us all. It's irritating, but these things need to be handled the same way as when you've taken a bad drug. Simply tell yourself how these crazy thoughts and anxieties are just down to the drug, nothing else. Then arm yourself, just in case. Damn

I keep living as a committed Christian, even on the days when I don't feel like one. Even on the days when the agnostic side of the faith spectrum looks pretty inviting, even on the days when doubt takes hold and shakes me to the core, I keep moving. I keep living as if the sun will rise, as if I'll survive the waters of baptism, as if Jesus will indeed carry me safely across the falls.

But, hey, remember: If things don't work out in your life, you can always just turn to drugs or join the Army.

It was more like an encounter with grace. Tita faced crushing poverty without being crushed. As a reporter in the States, I had tried to understand what kept people from seizing opportunity in a society of plenty. As a reporter in Leveriza, I tried to understand how people seized opportunity where it scarcely existed.

Emet had lived a hard life without growing hardened—a mixed blessing given the indignities of his poverty.

The age at which a man begins using drugs or alcohol to deal with life's problems is the emotional age at which he remains.

Wanting something more, and ready to take a risk, Elizebeth quit her job at the Indiana high school in the spring of 1916 and moved back in with her parents to think about what was next.

Failure is not a pre-requisite for success. Already successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again than who failed

Waiting it out is just fine. The sky won't fall, the company won't fold. It'll just be a calmer, cooler, more comfortable place to work. For everyone.

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that. And two more: Enough already.

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that.

it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.

Failure is not a prerequisite for success.

Ben Saunders explicaba que durante su travesía en solitario por el Polo Norte (treinta y un maratones seguidos, setenta y dos días) la «gran decisión» se le presentaba como algo tan imponente que en su día a día se limitaba a decisiones del tipo: «Llegar a aquel trozo de hielo que está a unos metros».

You may feel out of your element at times. You might even feel like you suck. That's all right. You can hire your way out of that feeling or you can learn your way out of it. Try learning first. What you give up in initial execution will be repaid many times over by the wisdom you gain.

Evolution doesn't linger on past failures, it's always building upon what worked. So should you.