Emotional Resilience Quotes

“We cannot control external events, but we can control how we respond to them. If we maintain emotional resilience and clarity of thought, we can reconcile practicality and motivation, common sense and momentum. ("Trompe le Pied - Trompe l'Oeil)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“That day, when she met her father, Trisha learned to smile even as her heart broke—it was also the day she came to hate the color red.”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire

“When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.”
― Christopher Dines, Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“Your soul journey is an opportunity to learn to trust the true essence of who you are, without being encumbered by your illusions of yourself and your denial of reality, both of which caused some of your unresolved emotions in the first place.”
― Lorraine Nilon, Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness : Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth

“I only cry once when I get hurt by the same thing at first.”
― Edward Okaroni

“A heart can carry grief and hope all at once, but only with attention and honor for both”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“In my new story, the actor cast in the role of my heart will no longer be asked to play arsonist to crumbled ruins in order to collect on the insurance policy of all she risked in the name of love.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“i. In the new version of my new story, the actor cast in the role of my heart will no longer be asked to play arsonist to crumbled ruins in order to collect on the insurance policy of all she risked in the name of love.

ii. She will also no longer feel the need to erect skyscraper scaffolds to prop up walls too weary to hold the weight of their own aspirations.

iii. Instead, she will plant riotous gardens of wildflowers, sing the shooting stars home to her chest, and discover that the secret to healing has been long naps and deep joy all along.

iv. She will, of course, continue to risk it all for love. Why would she possibly do anything but that?

v. Despite all the burning she has known, despite all the ways the ashes of her hopes have fallen ungracefully from great heights, she has always been born for the rise.

vi. She remembers now that she has never fallen without being caught. My god, her people have such strong arms.

vii. She knows that sometimes, it’s not so much rising as being lifted and held until the singed feathers grow back and the wings are strong enough to spread wide and fly again.

viii. Hands at your back, her dearheart says. She feels them there and knows she is never alone.

ix. Every story that dies gives birth to another. This has been the way of stories since the beginning of time.

x. The actor newly cast in the role of my heart is ready for a new story to begin.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“The difference between those who succeed and those who don’t is persistence.”
― Glody Kikonga, MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind

“The world didn’t end for me in fire but in whispers—the quiet closing of drawers, the final shutting of doors, memories fading like bruises no one believes in—where the lines blur and I sometimes feel others with me, or maybe just the broken selves trauma failed to bury, yet I’m not alone because Georgie is here, breathing with a silence louder than prayer, and I stopped wanting when the world stopped seeing me, stopped needing when even the pain let go, for this isn’t a story of survival but of enduring, of living after the end, and whatever’s left now belongs to me—and it is, undeniably, tragic.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“The secret to success is simple: Never quit.”
― Glody Kikonga, MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind

“The kitchen is where I heal. Where I rebel against chaos — with herbs, heat, and heart.”
― Barbara O'Neill

“The discomfort of the situation faced seems to be an additional fuel in this process. The need for overcoming arises at every moment... the overcoming not of memories, but of the desire for a temporal regression, which brings me nostalgia and a fleeting sense of comfort, from the road of what could have been.”
― Raydrich Rocha, Consciência: Delírios e Galopes

“O desconforto da situação enfrentada parece ser um combustível a mais nesse processo. A necessidade de superação se dá a todo instante… a superação não das lembranças, mas do desejo de retrocesso temporal, que me dão nostalgia e leve conforto momentâneo, da estrada do que poderia ter sido.”
― Raydrich Rocha, Consciência: Delírios e Galopes

“This battle fought within the consciousness of every man, is relative, for in nature there is no evil. It exists as a byproduct of man. In nature, there is a brutal indifference between the cycles of matter and energy. Therefore, this daily struggle between good and evil in the heart of every man is as much philosophical and psychological as it is the social framework in which we have structured ourselves throughout history.”
― Raydrich Rocha, Consciência: Delírios e Galopes

“Motivation comes and goes. Systems last—and showing up makes them work.”
― K. Trenvar

“I let someone see me. And I didn't disappear”
― Dr Faris Basheer Mohamed, The Soul's Touch : A Quiet Journey Into Awakening And Healing

“Existence, for me, is not merely suffering — it is a meticulous form of torture disguised as life. I move through a world that calls itself shared, yet what I carry is mine alone: a private apocalypse, constant and precise. Others ache, yes — but not like this. Not like me.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Pain is my art. Madness is my muse.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Some truths don’t shout. They whisper — and still echo for years.”
― Zoé Mira, Silent Words: A Visual Meditation on Stillness and Presence

“Sometimes the smallest gestures—scribbled gratitude, a half-sentence shared, even just showing up in pain—are how we stay tethered to life. Beneath the spirals of shame and the weight of unspoken suffering, there’s still a flicker. A breath. A reach toward connection. And that, in its fragile, fumbling way, is a form of survival. A kind of love.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“To stay stable, root yourself in values, breathe through uncertainty, and let your peace come from within, not from what changes around you.”
― Ayoub Imilouane

“ “emotional resilience often looks nothing like what we’re told it should”,”
― Layla Arden, Shattered Roots

“Some days I survive by accident, not hope. The pain never stops—it just changes costume. And still, somewhere in the static, there’s a flicker of magic: not in healing, but in enduring. That’s the human condition—staying alive with no good reason, except that part of you refuses to vanish quietly.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Laughter doesn’t erase pain, but it loosens the grip of resentment. When two people laugh together after hurt, the wounds begin to heal.”
― Pamela Cox

“Screens offer escape — but they also rob us of the very discomfort that builds strength.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“Silence doesn’t always mean peace. Sometimes, it’s a child learning to bury feelings they don’t yet know how to name.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya

“Even though she was afraid of living, she didn't want to die.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“A calm child is not always a regulated one. Some children learn to go silent when they feel unseen.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience

“Screens numb discomfort. Real growth happens when we sit with it, name it, and learn to breathe through.”
― P. Pra. Sandhyaya, Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience