Weathering Hard Times Quotes

“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.

Here are some obvious things about the weather:

It's real.
You can't change it by wishing it away.
If it's dark and rainy, it really is dark and rainy, and you can't alter it.
It might be dark and rainy for two weeks in a row.

BUT
it will be sunny one day.
It isn't under one's control when the sun comes out, but come out it will.
One day.

It really is the same with one's moods, I think. The wrong approach is to believe that they are illusions. Depression, anxiety, listlessness - these are all are real as the weather - AND EQUALLY NOT UNDER ONE'S CONTROL.
Not one's fault.

BUT
They will pass: really they will.

In the same way that one really has to accept the weather, one has to accept how one feels about life sometimes, "Today is a really crap day," is a perfectly realistic approach. It's all about finding a kind of mental umbrella. "Hey-ho, it's raining inside; it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow, and when it does I shall take full advantage.”
― Stephen Fry

“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.”
― Seth Adam Smith

“In sailing, in weather, in life and death, answers are not endings and questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward.”
― Kaci Cronkhite

“It is pointless waiting for perfect weather. You’ll never get anywhere or do anything worthwhile if you do. Perfect weather never comes, and even if it comes, it doesn’t last long. Make a move. Make a move now.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The devil's breath is a cold as dantes hell.”
― Angela Khristin Brown, Poetry Collection

“Life slings its arrows, some may pierce,
but you'll rise with the sun.
Like a willow that bends,
you'll weather the storm.
Bruised petals heal, foundations rebuild,
and unseen paths unfold.
Within us lies the strength of towering redwoods,
unwavering and renewed with each passing season.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul