DIFFICULT TIMES

surviving
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

'" -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!" -- Ai Qing

what's going on
ther sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us."

-- Pema Chodron
"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities."

-- Ralph Marston

Where are you going?
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

-- Winston Churchill
"If things go wrong, don’t go with them."

-- Roger Babson

Flow
"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again."

-- Alex Tan

Fly
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-- Toni Morrison
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

-- Henry Ford

Talk it out
"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving."

-- Woodrow Wilson

Write it out
"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."

-- Robertson Davies

This too shall pass
"If I can endure for this minute whatever is happening to me No matter how heavy my heart is or how dark the moment might be... If I can but keep on believing what I know in my heart to be true, That darkness will fade with morning and that this will pass away, too... Then nothing can ever disturb me or fill me with uncertain fear, For as sure as night brings dawning, my morning is bound to appear..."

-- Unknown

It will, really!
"Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything's different."

-- Calvin & Hobbes

In the end...
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."

-- Robertson Davies

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