Quotes about Resilience

Fear comes, but fear passes.

There's a biblical story where Jesus says we can build our house on sand or we can build it on rock. Our house is our emotional stability. When it is built on sand, then the winds and rain can tear it down. One disappointing phone call and we crumble; one storm and the house falls down. When our house is built on rock, then it is sturdy and strong and the storms can't destroy it.

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.

Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable.

The pain you are going through is not what will determine your future; your future will be determined by who you are as you go through your pain.

you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it

Your human self might be in hell right now, but your divine self is literally untouched by your suffering. And your divine self is who you are.

It has been said that love brings up everything unlike itself, and sometimes just when we feel we are moving towards a solution, the problem comes up again and grabs us by the throat. That is natural. It is part of the process. Do not despair.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to be doesn't stand a chance.

That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn't have any more tears left.

You can't be a light of the world and a nervous wreck at the same time.

We're not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.