Quotes about Resilience
Centered on the world's stage, she sings to her loves and beloveds, to her foes and detractors: However I am perceived and deceived, however my ignorance and conceits, lay aside your fears that I will be undone, for I shall not be moved.
— Maya Angelou
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
— Maya Angelou
She worked the thread through the flowered cloth as if she were sewing the torn ends of her life together.
— Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.
— Maya Angelou
Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
— Maya Angelou
Nothing can dim.the light which shines within us
— Maya Angelou
We turned other cheeks so often our heads seemed to revolve on the end of our necks, like old stop and go signs.
— Maya Angelou
Sister, change everything you don't like about your life. But when you come to a thing you can't change, then change the way you think about it. You'll see it new, and maybe a new way to change it.
— Maya Angelou
I want to thank each person who has the courage to push through and past the set of coping behaviors we've come to label as codependency—who learn what it means to take care of themselves. "Nobody taught me how to take care of myself," a fifty-year-old woman told me recently. "I didn't have enough money to go to therapy, but I had enough to buy a book.
— Melody Beattie
If you did not have that person or problem in your life, what would you be doing with your life that is different from what you are doing now? How would you be feeling and behaving? Spend a few minutes visualizing yourself living your life, feeling and behaving that way—in spite of your unsolved problem.
— Melody Beattie
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.1 —II TIMOTHY 1:7
— Melody Beattie
Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.
— Melody Beattie