Quotes About Resilience

I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures

Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

If you made something and it didn't work out, let it go. Remember that you're nothing but a beginner—even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go. Forget

One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves. I looked at each thought, at each unit of sorrow, and I acknowledged its existence and felt (without trying to protect myself from it) its horrible pain. And then I would tell that sorrow, It's OK. I love you. I accept you. Come into my heart now. It's over....

Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in comon with Love.

El sufrimiento y las molestías son inevitables en esta vida, pero si encuentras la quietud necesaria con el tiempo descubrirás que todo ( lo incómodo y lo hermoso) pasa con el tiempo

Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And

You made it; your get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given.

It's all for the best, I know it is. I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. I know all this. But still…

double-pumpin' it when you have to inhale two desperate gasps of oxygen with every sob.

We must risk delight," he wrote. "We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

Lastly, she knew one other thing, and this was the most important realization of all: she knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact. This

I hope that your heart is strong within your grieving.

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

if your life has become a trash compactor, then you are allowed to try to escape that trash compactor, whatever it takes.

Me peame laskma oma südamel aeg-ajalt puruneda. Purustatud süda on hea märk. See tähendab, et sa vähemalt pürgisid millegi poole.

Admit what you did... Take your lumps... The sooner you get flattened to the ground, the sooner you can begin to rebuild your life again.

The hardest part of your life is behind you now.

I saw it as proof that you must never surrender, that no doesn't always mean no, and that miraculous turns of fate can happen to those who persist in showing up.

Robert Burton, on how to survive melancholy: "Be not solitary, be not idle.")

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.")

Alma learned that her father drank out of bottles in the evening, and that those bottles sometimes contained danger (raised voices; banishment), but could also contain miracles—such