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π Resilience
βTo be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nestβ
β Pema Chodron
βNo mud no lotusβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βA fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth if I have to fall may I fall from a high placeβ
β Paulo Coelho
βDo not judge me by my successes judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up againβ
β Nelson Mandela
βIn the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins not through strength but through persistenceβ
β Buddha
βNo great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.β
β Epictetus
βNever underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spiritβ
β Wilma Rudolph
βOur greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fallβ
β Confucius
βWhat does not destroy me, makes me stronger.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βThere is a crack in everything that is how the light gets inβ
β Leonard Cohen
βWholeness does not mean perfection it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of lifeβ
β Parker Palmer
βDifficulties are things that show a person what they areβ
βAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including youβ
β Anne Lamott
βDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise instead seek what they soughtβ
β Matsuo Basho
βDo not be afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.β
β Unknown
βYou may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeatedβ
β Maya Angelou
βWhen one door closes another opens but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for usβ
β Alexander Graham Bell
βThe wound is the place where the light enters youβ
β Rumi
βYou do not learn to walk by following rules you learn by doing and by falling overβ
β Richard Branson
βPain is temporary quitting lasts foreverβ
β Lance Armstrong
βChampions keep playing until they get it rightβ
β Billie Jean King
βWhen something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favorβ
β Elon Musk
βSuffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to beβ
β Charles Dickens
βWind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire likewise with randomness and uncertainty and chaos you want to use them not hide from themβ
β Nassim Nicholas Taleb
βCourage is not the absence of fear courage is fear walkingβ
β Susan David
βSmooth seas do not make skillful sailorsβ
β African Proverb
βYou have power over your mind not outside events realize this and you will find strengthβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journeyβ
β Wendell Berry
βToday is hard tomorrow will be worse but the day after tomorrow will be sunshineβ
β Jack Ma
βOne who would pick the roses must not fear the thorns.β
β Saadi Shirazi
βYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you readβ
β James Baldwin
βHave no fear of perfection you will never reach itβ
β Salvador Dali
βWater is fluid soft and yielding but water will wear away rock which is rigid and cannot yieldβ
β Lao Tzu
βResilience is accepting your new reality even if it is less good than the one you had beforeβ
β Elizabeth Edwards
βSuccess is most often achieved by those who do not know that failure is inevitableβ
β Coco Chanel
βThere is always light if only we are brave enough to see it if only we are brave enough to be itβ
β Amanda Gorman
βI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I amβ
β Sylvia Plath
βKites rise highest against the wind, not with it.β
βYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every dayβ
β Elizabeth Gilbert
βTurn your wounds into wisdom.β
βThat which does not kill us makes us strongerβ
βFailure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligentlyβ
β Henry Ford
βAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.β
β Helen Keller
βFear is not the natural state of civilized peopleβ
β Aung San Suu Kyi
βFor every failure there is an alternative course of action you just have to find itβ
β Mary Kay Ash
βPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heartβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βTurn your wounds into wisdomβ
β Oprah Winfrey
βThe strength of the team is each individual member the strength of each member is the teamβ
β Phil Jackson
βThe stiff and unbending is the disciple of death the soft and yielding is the disciple of lifeβ
β Laozi
βSometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joyβ
βTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeβ
β Mary Oliver
βThe oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.β
β Robert Jordan
βWe cannot choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respondβ
β Edith Eger
βI do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remainsβ
β Anne Frank
βAll the adversity I have had all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened meβ
β Walt Disney
βBe the heroine of your life not the victimβ
β Nora Ephron
βAnd once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked inβ
β Haruki Murakami
βResilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity and we can build it it is not fixedβ
β Sheryl Sandberg
βJust keep swimmingβ
β Dory from Finding Nemo
βA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.β
β John A. Shedd
βThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes nextβ
β Ursula K. Le Guin
βYou gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the faceβ
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βI knew that if I failed I would not regret that but I knew the one thing I might regret is not tryingβ
β Jeff Bezos
βThe obstacle is the wayβ
β Ryan Holiday
βI am not what I am I am what I do with my handsβ
β Louise Bourgeois
βI never dreamed about success I worked for itβ
β Estee Lauder
βGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risksβ
β Herodotus
βThe gem cannot be polished without friction nor the person perfected without trialsβ
β Chinese Proverb
βThe broken bone, once healed, is strongest at the place it was broken.β
β John Lyly
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone throughβ
βSurvival can be summed up in three words never give upβ
β Bear Grylls
βDripping water hollows out stone not through force but through persistenceβ
β Ovid
βThere is no adrenaline rush it is much more like a deep calmβ
β Alex Honnold
βVulnerability is not winning or losing it is having the courage to show up when you cannot control the outcomeβ
β Brene Brown
βSince we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see realityβ
β Nikos Kazantzakis
βNo matter what nobody can take away the dances you have already hadβ
β Gabriel Garcia Marquez
βWhen it is dark enough, you can see the stars.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βI hated every minute of training but I said do not quit suffer now and live the rest of your life as a championβ
β Muhammad Ali
βI made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could and no amount of poverty or misfortune was going to hold me downβ
β Colonel Sanders
βPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiarβ
βSuccess is not easy and it is certainly not for the lazyβ
β Vera Wang
βWe must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hopeβ
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βThe most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeedβ
β Adam Grant
βDo not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.β
βGrit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goalsβ
β Angela Duckworth
βA heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.β
β Horace
βIf the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone these women together ought to be able to turn it backβ
β Sojourner Truth
βSome of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting goβ
β Hermann Hesse
βThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.β
βWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a wellβ
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βWater does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.β
β Margaret Atwood
βWe ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of Godβ
β Brother Lawrence
βIt is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at allβ
β J.K. Rowling
βSuccess is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that countsβ
β Winston Churchill
βFailure is not the opposite of success it is part of successβ
β Arianna Huffington
βAdversity reveals genius prosperity conceals itβ
βIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of youβ
β Deepak Chopra
βYou could call this the moment I became an educated person I mean the moment I was no longer a person who merely learned but someone who was actually changed by what I learnedβ
β Tara Westover
βEverything can be taken from a person but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstancesβ
β Viktor Frankl
βI am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do itβ
β Pablo Picasso
βThere is no situation that is not transformable there is no person who is hopelessβ
β Desmond Tutu
βFor what it is worth it is never too late to be whoever you want to beβ
β F. Scott Fitzgerald
βSometimes life hits you in the head with a brick do not lose faithβ
β Steve Jobs
βThe two most powerful warriors are patience and timeβ
β Leo Tolstoy
βFall seven times, stand up eight.β
βDo what you can with what you have where you areβ
β Teddy Roosevelt
βDiscipline equals freedomβ
β Jocko Willink
βA pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficultyβ
βWhere there is no struggle there is no strengthβ
βYou miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not takeβ
β Wayne Gretzky
βThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselvesβ
β Thomas Merton
βIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.β
β Albert Einstein
βAnd so it goesβ
β Kurt Vonnegut
βEverything negative pressure challenges is all an opportunity for me to riseβ
β Kobe Bryant
βThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the danceβ
β Alan Watts
βIt is not the bruise on the body that hurts. It is the bruise on the heart.β
β Aisha bint Abu Bakr
βIt is not down in any map true places never areβ
β Herman Melville
βEvery great dream begins with a dreamer always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the starsβ
β Harriet Tubman
βPersistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.β
β Gever Tulley
βAdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.β
βOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.β
βThe greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fallβ
βThe human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.β
β Mark Twain
βThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedomβ
β Tara Brach
βIt is not whether you get knocked down it is whether you get upβ
β Vince Lombardi
βThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourselfβ
β Zhuangzi
βAnd now that you dont have to be perfect you can be goodβ
β John Steinbeck
βI have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games 26 times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeedβ
β Michael Jordan
βThere may be people who have more talent than you but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you doβ
β Derek Jeter
βGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the differenceβ
β Reinhold Niebuhr
βWhen you find your path you must not be afraid you need to have sufficient courage to make mistakesβ
βFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.β
β Martha Graham
βIf roses can grow through concrete then so can youβ
β Nikita Gill
βCourage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'β
β Mary Anne Radmacher
βPersist and resist: these two words contain the secret of all tenacious natures.β
β Victor Hugo
βMy dad encouraged us to fail growing up he would ask us what we failed at that weekβ
β Sara Blakely
βA life is not important except in the impact it has on other livesβ
β Jackie Robinson
βThere is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter everything is withinβ
β Miyamoto Musashi
βThose who have a why to live can bear with almost any howβ
βWhen the world pushes you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.β
βThe most effective way to do it is to do itβ
β Amelia Earhart
βThe pine stays green in winter; wisdom is seeing that this is the nature of the pine.β
βWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselvesβ
βThe single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incompleteβ
β Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
βBeing able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying livesβ
β Bessel van der Kolk
βThe human capacity for burden is like bamboo β far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.β
β Jodi Picoult
βDifficulties are just things to overcome after allβ
β Ernest Shackleton
βI am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps I am the first Simone Bilesβ
β Simone Biles
βAction springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibilityβ
β Dietrich Bonhoeffer
βIt is not about how hard you hit it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forwardβ
β Rocky Balboa
βWhatever anybody says or does assume positive intent you will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very differentβ
β Indra Nooyi
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficultβ
β Seneca
βEvery strike brings me closer to the next home runβ
β Babe Ruth
βA just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.β
βWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experienceβ
β Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
βSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a giftβ
βWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within usβ
βStart where you are use what you have do what you canβ
β Arthur Ashe
βIn the midst of chaos there is also opportunityβ
β Sun Tzu
βHardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destinyβ
β C.S. Lewis
βI can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.β
βIf you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challengesβ
β Pat Riley
βThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gentlyβ
βFall seven times stand up eightβ
β Japanese Proverb
βThe battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself the invisible inevitable battles inside all of us that is where it is atβ
β Jesse Owens
βI am convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseveranceβ
βDo not give up do not ever give upβ
β Jim Valvano
βThe view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your lifeβ
β Carol Dweck
βNothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more so that we may fear lessβ
β Marie Curie
βIt is not the mountain we conquer but ourselvesβ
β Edmund Hillary
βA great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.β
β Catherine the Great
βOnly in the darkness can you see the stars.β
βWe can do hard thingsβ
β Glennon Doyle
βI used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world there must be someone just like meβ
β Frida Kahlo
βMountains are not fair or unfair they are just dangerousβ
β Reinhold Messner
βI have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that will not workβ
β Thomas Edison
βDo not be wise in words be wise in deedsβ
β Hebrew Proverb
βYou cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surfβ
β Jon Kabat-Zinn
βLearned helplessness is the giving-up reaction the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do does not matterβ
β Martin Seligman
βYou never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choiceβ
β Bob Marley
βThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.β
βCourage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fearβ
βThough the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.β
βResilience is a social rather than an individual quality we dont just pick ourselves up we are picked up by othersβ
β Krista Tippett
βThings turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn outβ
β John Wooden
βSelf-compassion is not self-indulgence self-compassion is self-preservationβ
β Kristin Neff
βWhat we pay attention to grows so what are you attending toβ
β adrienne maree brown
βAn entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way downβ
β Reid Hoffman
βWhat is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still livesβ
β Rupi Kaur
βLife is never guaranteed to be great nothing is guaranteed except that you can tryβ
β Ai Weiwei
βMay you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire that disturbs you when you have settled for something safeβ
β John ODonohue
βThe world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.β
βWhen I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraidβ
β Audre Lorde
βWe are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the starsβ
β Oscar Wilde
βIn the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summerβ
β Albert Camus
βLet everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is finalβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversyβ
βAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be wellβ
β Julian of Norwich
βYou are the sky everything else is just the weatherβ
βThe doors to the world of the wild self are few but precious if you have a deep scar that is a doorβ
β Clarissa Pinkola Estes
βWhen the world is falling apart around you the first thing you do is get your own mind rightβ
β Man Haron Monis
βYou cannot find peace by avoiding lifeβ
β Virginia Woolf
βI prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legsβ
β Frederick Douglass
βHowever difficult life may seem there is always something you can do and succeed atβ
β Stephen Hawking
βCompare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is todayβ
β Jordan Peterson
βWhat you cannot avoid welcomeβ
β Danish Proverb
βWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer realityβ
β Plutarch
βIn times of adversity and change we really discover who we are and what we are made ofβ
β Howard Schultz
βIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giantsβ
β Isaac Newton
βDid you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving natures laws wrong it learned to walk without having feetβ
β Tupac Shakur
βTo bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.β
β Publilius Syrus
βYou have power over your mind β not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.β
βYou are your best thingβ
β Toni Morrison
βA wounded deer leaps the highest.β
β Emily Dickinson
βThe trouble is you think you have timeβ
β Jack Kornfield
βKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escapeβ
β bell hooks
βAll that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is changeβ
β Octavia Butler
βHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.β
βThe soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.β
β John Vance Cheney
βI really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fallβ
β Serena Williams
βIt is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to changeβ
β Charles Darwin
βThe quieter you become the more you can hearβ
β Ram Dass
βThere is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.β
β Og Mandino
βA great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and further will enable a change in the destiny of humankindβ
β Daisaku Ikeda
βThe most important thing is to find out what the most important thing isβ
β Shunryu Suzuki
βAlthough the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of itβ
βI have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to doβ
β Georgia OKeeffe
βIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.β
βNothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wiselyβ
β Auguste Rodin
βIn the end nobody wins unless everybody winsβ
β Bruce Springsteen
βIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunityβ
βNothing is miserable unless you think it so and conversely every lot is happy if you are content with itβ
β Boethius
βI am not concerned that you have fallen I am concerned that you ariseβ
β Abraham Lincoln
βIt is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arenaβ
β Theodore Roosevelt
βI cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feetβ
β Persian Proverb
βThe world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken placesβ
β Ernest Hemingway
βAt the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we canβ
βYou are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your potentialβ
β David Goggins
βSome people are old at 18 and some are young at 90 time is a concept that humans createdβ
β Yoko Ono
βThere is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggarβ
β Dalai Lama
βThe secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life to something you bring everything to every minute of the day for the rest of your lifeβ
β Henry Moore
βHow wild it was to let it beβ
β Cheryl Strayed
βFirst they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you winβ
β Mahatma Gandhi
βThe conversational nature of reality means we can never just command our way through life we must be willing to be changed by what we findβ
β David Whyte
βThe heart that breaks open can contain the whole universeβ
β Joanna Macy
βYou may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.β
β Margaret Thatcher
βIf you change the way you look at things the things you look at changeβ
β Wayne Dyer
βDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.β
β Seneca the Elder
βPatience is the companion of wisdom.β
β Augustine of Hippo
βSometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the sameβ
β Tom Brady
βThe purpose of our lives is to be happy and happiness is not something ready made it comes from your own actionsβ
βYou build on failure you use it as a stepping stone close the door on the pastβ
β Johnny Cash
βThey can because they think they canβ
β Virgil
βThe bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resistsβ
βHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darknessβ
βThe inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here the inferno where we live every day that we form by being togetherβ
β Italo Calvino
βMisfortune nobly born is good fortune.β
βTo love life more than the meaning of it is the most resilient stance of allβ
β Dostoevsky
βI will seize fate by the throat it shall not overcome meβ
β Beethoven
βTime is the substance I am made of time is a river which sweeps me along but I am the riverβ
β Jorge Luis Borges
βYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understandingβ
βI tell my story not because it is unique but because it is the story of many girlsβ
β Malala Yousafzai
βPain is inevitable suffering is optionalβ
βThe gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.β
β Seneca the Younger
βI alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripplesβ
β Mother Teresa
βIt always seems impossible until it is doneβ
β Mandela
βEver tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail betterβ
β Samuel Beckett
βOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scarsβ
β Khalil Gibran
βDo not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.β
βMemories of our lives of our works and our deeds will continue in othersβ
β Rosa Parks
βHe who learns must suffer and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of Godβ
β Aeschylus
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.β
βDo not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do itβ
β Howard Thurman
βA good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anythingβ
β Irish Proverb
βWe never know how high we are till we are called to riseβ
βJust as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beingsβ
β Elie Wiesel
βA smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.β
βI would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rotβ
β Jack London
βA society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sitβ
β Greek Proverb
βIn the dark night of the soul bright flows the river of Godβ
β John of the Cross
βIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enoughβ
β Meister Eckhart
βThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.β
βIf you are going through hell keep goingβ
βLife is the dancer and you are the danceβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever doβ
βIt is in the darkest moments that we must focus to see the lightβ
β Native American Proverb
βLet nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away God never changes patience obtains all thingsβ
β Teresa of Avila
βPatience and fortitude conquer all things.β
βNothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own realityβ
β Don Miguel Ruiz
βDo not fake it till you make it fake it till you become itβ
β Amy Cuddy
βI learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over itβ
βAlmost every problem we face can be helped by our willingness to see it differentlyβ
β Lori Gottlieb
βStrength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable willβ
βHope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch feeling lucky it is an axe you break down doors with in an emergencyβ
β Rebecca Solnit
βA winner is a dreamer who never gives upβ
βNew beginnings are often disguised as painful endingsβ
βThe attempt to escape from pain is what creates more painβ
β Gabor Mate
βThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.β
βThe beauty and the mystery of life lies not in avoiding the difficult moments but in being open to themβ
β Orhan Pamuk
βMany of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave upβ
βYou must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current realityβ
β James Stockdale
βIf you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint then by all means paint and that voice will be silencedβ
β Vincent van Gogh
βI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my shipβ
β Louisa May Alcott
βHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of outcomeβ
β Vaclav Havel
βCourage does not always roar sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrowβ
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