“Is the idea of resilience a scam? A con to get you to do more so others have to do less?”— Jami Attenberg, nytimes.com
“The happiest girls work their asses off — but they also recognize when it’s time to take a break, when it’s time to recharge, when it’s time to give themselves a well-needed vacation so they don’t burn out.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don't have to be resilient. It's okay to break.”— Thomas Ward, Liz Doran, Hannah Gadsby, Josh Thomas, Arnold, Keegan Joyce, imdb.com
“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“In life, we all face unforgiving competition, unpredictable adversity, occasional betrayal, and too often: doubt and despair. These are inevitable roadblocks on the long journey of pursuing our goals. This will happen if we compete to win.”— Bruce Craven, cnn.com
“Sacked?! Certainly not, I am never sacked.”— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, imdb.com
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”— Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Frida Kahlo, Salma Hayek, imdb.com
“And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that no…”— Ursula K. Le Guin, ursulakleguin.com
“That's what people do, they mend. You taught me that. And sometimes you end up stronger at the broken places.”— Joseph Dougherty, Caleb Rivers, Tyler Blackburn, imdb.com
“You will ask her to bow and she will climb. You will ask her to crawl and she will rise. You will ask her to die and she will be reborn. You will bury her and she will grow.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“You should’ve known that This is not a woman Who fears the wolf. The wolf fears her.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Tammy: Where's Tina? At home, crying into her butt? Tina: No. My butt is dry. And strong.”— Steven Davis, Kelvin Yu, Tina Belcher, Dan Mintz, imdb.com
“You've been down before. You've been hurt before. You got up before.”— Fifth Harmony, open.spotify.com
“Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“I can’t begin to imagine how I would have coped with what many of my patients have endured, and I see their symptoms as part of their strength—the ways they learned to survive. And despite all their suffering many have gone on to become loving partners and parents, exemplary teachers, nurses, scient…”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“Trauma constantly confronts us with our fragility and with man’s inhumanity to man but also with our extraordinary resilience.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become…”— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com
“And I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning — even during our darkest nights.”— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com