290 Quotes About Inspirational-quotes-for-women

If stars needed the sky's permission to shine, the universe would be a very dark place.

Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.

Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible; they shine brighter.

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.

It isn’t violence that can break through our hearts. It isn’t force that binds us and keeps us together. Only tenderness has the power to accomplish what the fullness of love desires to do. Tenderness that approaches us little by little, and handles our feelings with the deepest affection and delight. Tenderness that is willing to wait for the right time until we are ready and we are no longer afraid.

To achieve resilience, we have to change our inner critic to an inner ally, and move from self-harshness to self-kindness.

Resilience is a well of inner resources that allows you to weather the difficulties and challenges you encounter without unnecessary mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual distress.

Far from being a passive endurance of life's tribulations, resilience is an active process you can choose to engage it. As we explore the key factors that cultivate resilience—connection, flexibility, perseverance, self-regulation, positivity, and self-care—you’ll gain clarity on the many choice points you have.

It turns out that you already have resilience deep within you. While we often consider resilience to be an exceptional quality, in fact it resides within everyone. Most of us don’t know how to access our resilience, however, as we never learned that we each have an unshakeable, deep inner core of strength and capability. For many of us, rediscovering that buried core of resilience takes some thoughtful and determined excavation.