#resilience

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#care-for-self #love-for-self #overcoming #resilience #self-esteem

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#did #eighteen #father #first #himself

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#always #american #american economy #back #been

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#american public #amplify #assets #communication #even

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#change #growth #reality #resilience #change

The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all. The old ones go our bail, we oblate preachers of our tribes. Be careful, they say, don't hock the beads of kinship agonies; the moire-effect of unfamiliar hymns upon our own, a change in pitch or shrillness of the voice transforms the ways of song to words of poetry or prose and makes distinctions no one recognizes. Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome. ↗

— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

#generation #hope #palimpsest #resilience #sword-sentiments

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#his #million #resilience #rubber

My message has always been about resilience. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#always #been #message #resilience

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. ↗

— Greg Kincaind

#endurance #inspirational #persistence #resilience #courage

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite. ↗