Decide to step back in the ring, start throwing some punches for what you believe in

E. Hemingway

Figure out what you want and learn how to ask for it

We must understand our own darkness

You need to let yourself be happy

Why did you survive for 80 years: it's just my habit

Delta Blues Singer

Without a witness you can just disappear

the truth is still the truth, even if nobody believes it

the lie is still a lie even if everybody believes it

I don't think our sad stories are supposed to teach us how to survive the world. I think our stories are supposed to make us want to change the world.

Never give up on finding what you really love

Our full potential lives on the other side of our fear

Trust your instincts; Obey your recovery

Man has three hearts, one heart in his mouth for what he says, one heart in his chest for his friends, one heart he holds secret and does not share. This is the heart of his destiny and his true dreams

Native Leader

All we will ever really own is our soul.

You have to care about everything more than anything

The Bear

We are all descendants of the subjugated

trust issues are contagious

Grief can feel like fear-but it is not……. It is love- - - love with no place to go

Faith may be knowing  without being shown

Faith sees best in the dark

Kierkegaard

The public does not want to see what we cannot unsee

Seal Team Member

Trauma: The assault of the unimaginable

The wrong people can talk you out of the right thing.

Tough times do not last. Tough people do.

Life has a gap in it: you can go crazy trying to fill it.

Subvert the dominant narrative

Kisten Pipe

Caring is the ultimate competitive advantage; Giving more than you take.

You did not come here to stay the same

Function forward, control what we can.

Pat Riley Lakers Coach

Of course when you are really hurting ….sometimes it can be easier to keep hurting then to try and heal…..figure out how to choose healing and don’t do it alone!

A person is made by patience and the odds against them.

Every person at some point in their life is going to fight a battle and maybe lose. The issue is not that you lose the battle but that in the midst of losing the battle you do not lose yourself.

What do you do when there is now way out….find a deeper way in.

Healing can mean deciding which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” — C.C. Scott

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” — Nelson Mandela

“Survival can be summed up in three words—never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” — Bear Grylls

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

On Overcoming Trauma & Healing:

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran

“It’s not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.” — Aisha Mirza

“Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.” — David Rossi (Criminal Minds)

“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” — Elizabeth Edwards

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.”

— Stephen Levine

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” — Mariska Hargitay

Quotes on Courage and Survival:

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” — Ambrose Redmoon

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” — Winston Churchill

“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” — Brené Brown

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. It means you are scared, but you go anyway.” — Neil Gaiman

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings

“Courage is found in unlikely places.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” — John Wayne

“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort. You cannot have both.”

— Brené Brown

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — Nora Ephron

“Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” — Bruce Lee

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” — Christopher Reeve

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” — Jean de La Bruyère

“Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.” — David Rossi (Criminal Minds)

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.” — Haruki Murakami

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

— Zig Ziglar