Quotes About Resilience

The unconditional yes, with its implicit trust of the givens' usefulness to our growth, cuts through that fear-based view of life. Saying yes to reality—to the things we cannot change—is like choosing to turn around and sit in the saddle in the direction the horse is going.

We do not let go of control on our own. Usually, something has to happen that shows us incontrovertibly that we are not in control. From this condition of bankrupt ego, we finally let go. Great losses are thus necessary losses like the discarded sandbags that lighten a balloon so it can ascend higher.

we cannot tolerate them, we add stress to our lives by fighting a losing game.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no witness in…. A not admitting of the wound Until it grew so wide That all my life had entered it And there was room beside…

While certain partners may hurt us, they cannot undo the abiding trust that we continue to carry so steadfastly toward the human world. We become able to hold others with a relaxed grasp, not compulsively or coercively as if we needed to hold on for dear life. Buddhist writer Stephen T. Butterfield wrote, "Since no relationship can be made entirely safe and secure . . . this has to mean trust in one's own ability to use any consequence, including betrayal, as a means for waking up.

Tanr?m, bana de?i?tirebilece?im ?eyleri de?i?tirmek için cesaret, de?i?tiremeyeceklerimi kabul etmek için sab?r ve ikisini birbirinden ay?rmak için ak?l ihsan eyle. Reinhold Niebuhr

It took just such evil and painful things for the great emancipation to occur," Nietzsche said. He is also the one who said that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

The path to a higher power than ego is saying yes to the predicament

Only God can cool the heat—separate the tea back from the water. Sometimes he even puts other people near the heat. People who can endure it. People equipped to help that person regain hope again." It

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in war.

There's a famous finding in the psychological literature," Ochsner explains, "showing that six months later, someone who has become a paraplegic is just as happy as someone who's won the lottery. It seems clear people are doing something to find what's positive in even the most dire of circumstances. The one thing you can always do is control your interpretation of the meaning of the situation

Lord With a crooked stick for a cane I'm limping home. Mocked and maligned Stooped and stupid Soiled and shabby I limp toward You. —Ruth Harms Calkin

Colonel Mickelson looks like he could defend Fort Hamilton by himself if Staten Island ever declared war and invaded... If Jack Nicholson looked like this when he yelled that Tom Cruise couldn't handle the truth, Cruise would have said, "Yes, you're right, I'm sorry. My bad.

My instincts tell me that if people are going to such great lengths to stop me, I should go to even greater lengths to persevere. I would describe that as admirable, yet strangely most people consider it annoying and obnoxious.

MY CHILDHOOD IS FILLED WITH GREAT MEMORIES, in fact, great ones are the only memories I have. I talked to a shrink about it, and we pretty much agreed that unpleasant things must have happened when I was growing up, but that I had just repressed them. I asked him how long I could go on repressing them, and he said maybe forever. That worked for me, so I left therapy before I could blow it and get in touch with my true feelings.

respond that we unfortunately seem to be running

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Luis Ponce de León, returning to his university after five years' imprisonment by the Inquisition, resumed his lectures with the words: "As we were saying yesterday…

Waiting for an angel. Someone to ameliorate. Lift me over difficulties. I stop looking. My angel is me.

Love is better than hate Love is better than hate Love is better than hate & stronger than hell for we took our shoes off as we fell.

There is a good side to every situation.