852 Quotes About Resilience

Leveraging your situation and giving yourself space in everyday life is not selfish! No matter what we’ve been told or programmed to think we can’t help others unless we first help ourselves.

I find a sort of beauty in exhaustion, a bittersweet sensation when the caffeine is no longer enough to get you through the day & you have to dig deep. To tap into reserves you didn’t know you had & push on. In a weird way this is when I truly come alive.

Life won’t always be perfect but there will always be perfect moments if you let them in. No one can take away our inherent ability to choose to see beauty in the small things in life.

Lockdown brought me home … to myself. Going from what has been an insanely fast pace of life for so many years to stopping still was a gift. It gave me time, it made me stop and listen….. I embraced the change of pace for that moment.

I’ve come to see my gender is as a super power. Being continually underestimated can be a powerful thing when you learn to wield it.

Trust is not static - it can be earned, it can be lost but it can be regained.

No, you’re not perfect & that’s how it should be.

What if instead of heroically bursting from the fire, a weakened and traumatized bird rises awkwardly, just barely, careening through a wall of sky on fire, entirely uncertain of what fate awaits when it finally clears the smoke? Why can't this mess be a triumph? Why can't basic survival be a kind of glory? Why do we envision a pristine and painless resurrection - when the world shows us, time and time again, how messy these processes really are?

I grasped that it would take a while for the keep to grasp with all that had happened. But there was something there, a feeling almost of relief. I had seen that before in a man who had had his maimed foot removed, or the family that finally finds their drowned child's body. To finally confront the worst there is, to look at it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live, and I will go on living.