Quotes About Resilience

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Mama, what kept you moving forward through droughts, wild animals, loneliness? We had no choice. Sadness was as dangerous as panthers and bears. The wilderness needs your whole attention.

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

pek küstahca konu?tunuz. Zafer Tanr?'n?n onu bah?etti?i ki?inin olacakt?r." Noyan Baycu

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Simplement, nous ne nous résignons pas à renoncer aux promesses que l'enfance nous a faites.

omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oog nogal ondoorzichtig was, in zekere zin beoogde de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voorbeeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging nooit iets te forceren niet nadelig voor me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voor me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved.

Crossing over the boundaries we've been taught to live within is a tough business. But I'm getting the idea they're not so formidable.

Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up!

Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

We are not designed to deal with the many stress-inducing situations of the twenty-first century. For most of human history, the stressors we faced were mainly physical, like running away from wild animals. Now they are almost entirely psychological. When was the last time you were frightened by a lion? The things that cause us stress in our modern world are the ones that go inside our heads.

Many of us have been burned by love and vowed to keep ourselves safe and not get pulled in again. But, inevitably, we do. Then we vow that this time, it's going to be different. This time, we're not going to make the same mistakes. And things seem wonderful--for a while. But more often than not, the same problems come up over and over.

I'm not saying you can live with it, I'm saying

Surrender is victory.

Focus on what you believe and what you want to create, regardless of the blowback.

Welcome to life. Life, something so sweet, something worth fighting for.

Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.