Quotes about Resilience

You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made. —Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith; former drug enthusiast turned spiritual enthusiast turned inspirational badass

Rough seas make better sailors.

All life is either moving forward and evolving or shrinking back and dying. If you want to evolve in your own life, you have to push through the obstacles instead of running from them.

So if you finally decide to quit your soul-crushing job and start the pastry shop of your dreams, be not upset if a truck drives through your front window into your scones. Instead of taking this as a sign that you shouldn't have opened your shop, take it to mean that you're ridding yourself of your BS and moving in the right direction.

Your faith in miracles, and yourself, must be greater than your fear. However easy or rough your birth process is, you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, lauggh, make a mess, clean it up and no stop until you get there.No matter what.

You are a badass. You were one when you came screaming into this planet and you are one now. The Universe wouldn't have bothered with you otherwise. You can't screw up so majorly that your badassery disappears. It is who you are. It's who you will always be. It's not up for negotiation.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too —pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?

People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!