#resilience-quotes

[thepersonalwords]

You don't win battles you walk away from.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[quotelr]

One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

[webweabings]

BE STRONG, BE BRAVE

Poem “Problem Area” (2016), in Last Sext, by Melissa Broder; // Unknown; // “The Waves” (1931), by Virgina Woolf; // “Notebooks” (2017), by Tennessee Williams; // “Fast Car” (1988), by Tracy Chapman; // “The American Crisis” (1776), by Thomas Paine; // Quote by @maplepecanpastry /// Stills from “Joan of Arc” (1948), by Victor Fleming, starring Ingrid Bergman

[nobeerreviews]

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

-- Margaret Atwood

(Padova, Italy)

[protectyouropacities]

[petrichor-moss-and-lightning]

The Mountain Goats, “Heel Turn 2” // Topaz Winters, “battlefield” // Lilith Kerr (me) // The Mountain Goats, “This Year” // e.e. cummings // Tumblr user @girlroach // Angus & Julia Stone, “Make it Out Alive” // Gang of Youths, “Achilles Come Down” // Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive” // Mary Oliver // Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” // Richard Siken, “Snow and Dirty Rain” // Lilith Kerr (me) // Lilith Kerr (me), “rebirth” from unloving the knife (2023) // Gwendolyn Brooks, “To the Young Who Want to Die” // Lilith Kerr (me again; sorry, I was running out of material lmao) // Tumblr user @daisies-on-a-cup // The Mountain Goats, “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”

[star-struck09]

I wish I could hold my younger self in my arms for even just a moment and tell her it will get better.

[authenticity2025]

“The only way out is through.” - Robert Frost

[andallshallbewell]

[webweabings]

WE’RE NOT MEANT TO STAY THE SAME

Deepak Chopra; // "Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey", by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008); // Lisa Brooks; // "The Angles In Heaven Done Signed My Name", by Leo "Bud" Welch; // "Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays", by Durga Chew-Bose; // "The Book of Disquiet", by Fernando Pessoa; // "I've Changed a Lot", by Sarah Juers; //"The Rom Con", by Devon Daniels.

[toyastales]

You know those people who face incredible challenges, the kind that would make most of us crumble? The ones who have every reason to throw in the towel but somehow, against all odds, they keep going? They are the true heroes, the ones who inspire us all. They prove that strength isn't about never falling, but about getting back up every time you do. That's what makes them the strongest among us. 

https://whatyoulookingatnow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-strongest-amongst-us.html

[life-spire]

[mr-entj]

Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

[obsidianquill]

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius

[star-struck09]

Life is about trying and trying and trying and trying and trying and trying and trying and—