852 Quotes About Resilience

Use the knowledge gained and the lessons learned to practice being compassionate with yourself as you take the courageous steps to move forward. While you’re at it, tie a big knot in the uninspired words coming from the negative voices in and around you.

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.

The job of the autonomic nervous system is to ensure we survive in moments of danger and thrive in times of safety. Survival requires threat detection and the activation of a survival response. Thriving demands the opposite—the inhibition of a survival response so that social engagement can happen. Without the capacity for activation, inhibition, and flexibility of response, we suffer.

question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo

My poetry is a journey in the depth of my heart, in the abyss of my conscious, underneath this realm and transcending horizons. Is who I was, who I am and who I had become.

...I return to the beginning of time Gathering fallen feathers of the angels’ wings Delighted, I breathe the infinite sky...(Excerpted from Healed by rain, chapter Resilience)

We make the choice . . . and then the choice makes us

I call you my soulmate because I lost myself in you and then found myself through you. Sure, when you are gone, I will be a fraction but the common denominator has always been me.

The yard consisted of grass and a Russian Olive tree, which was about the only kind of tree able to survive on the high prairies. Its thin, grey leaves made it look as though it were on the verge of dying, thereby fooling the elements and the bad weather into thinking that they didn't have to bother with something so spindly and bent, something so obviously on its last legs.