Thriving Quotes

“Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.”
― Jillian Michaels

“Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.”
― Mollie Marti

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.

The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.

The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.

The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.

The moral of the story?

Kids are smart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.”
― Mollie Marti

“With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.”
― Mollie Marti, Walking With Justice: Uncommon Lessons from One of Life's Greatest Mentors

“High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.”
― Mollie Marti

“Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth.”
― Mollie Marti

“There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.”
― Mollie Marti

“And it wasn't fair. That was the thing that was at the heart of my reluctance and my resentment. Some people make it out of their stories unscathed, thriving. Some people don't.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.”
― Mollie Marti

“Thriving isn't about making life comfortable, fun and happy; it's about finding purpose and making our own unique contribution.”
― Malcolm Stern, Slay Your Dragons With Compassion: Ten Ways to Thrive Even When It Feels Impossible

“Every mountain you climb, leads you to a never ending destination of thriving gorgeously.”
― Hiral Nagda

“The only answer to death is the heat and confusion of living; the only dependable warmth is the warmth of the blood.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

“As Yarrow slept and the moon rose high in the sky, a breeze rustled through stalks of onyx-hued basil and deep gray sage, tall as sunflowers. Starlight fell in slants across petals of black violets. A night-dark strawberry rolled across the ground. A plum-colored tomato fell from its stem. Borage and pansies and nasturtium in varying shades of black and gray turned the darkness into its own kind of rainbow.
Beneath the soil lurked something even darker. Generations of pain saturated the earth, fed each stem and fruit and flower. In the soft, thick leaves of sage: loss. In the blackened basil: broken hearts. Tucked inside the husks of charcoal corn: anger and betrayal. Trapped within the bell of burgundy calla lilies: stolen innocence.”
― Liz Parker, In the Shadow Garden

“It’s so hard to bring solace when you yourself feel soulless.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“The fact that I was born does not mean that I am alive.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Worrying about tomorrow's will destroy your today while thriving today will ignite all your tomorrow's”
― Hiral Nagda

“A Brand New Day


Yesterday was beautiful you did
everything at your best.
Yesterday was fair whatever happened
was acceptable.
Yesterday was miserable nothing going your way.
Yesterday was unfortunate
you couldn’t afford to waste another day.
Yesterday was history everything was history,
but you can work on the fate of yours today.


Today is a brand new day,
an opportunity for everything,
another chance to make it better,
another day to live for you and love ones,
another moment to create special moment
making historical moment.


The day you have today is a perfect day,
Living the life with every opportunity,
every chance, every moment to live.
Having today you are free to live.
Living is what you have been given today.
Go live.

by Tina Leung: I Face Forward poem”
― Tina Leung, I Face Forward

“Every empath must ultimately face a life-defining choice: survive or thrive.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Sacrifice is assumed to be the giving away of that which we need for our own survival. But have we considered that survival (in the richest sense of the word) is not based on what we keep, but on what we give away?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I realized, as all survivors must, that being alive isn’t the same thing as living.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“The world around us changes every day, so we too must evolve to thrive.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“When humans do what they want, they thrive.”
― Julie Lythcott-Haims, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult

“Think less. Thrive more.”
― Robert J. Braathe

“The government has many areas where low trust systems are thriving. We see the low trust the public has in the military, environment, health, safety, police, disability, social security, and so on.”
― Steven Magee

“June: National PTSD Awareness Month

Suicide is an axe to a tree,
a commitment to a delusional freedom,
that you have not yet learned to be freed.

Living is a passage to an endless potential of tomorrow
that your worth is not bounded by the society's narrow values,
but you strike with the principles
that preserve your worthiness
to find your pathway to meet
the ultimate goal of happiness.” June 2023 by Tina Leung”
― Tina Leung, I Face Forward

“Choose to put persistence and faith into action, daily, to maintain focus and live in inner peace. Day-to-day choices guided by persistence and faith are an opportunity to grow and develop daily, while thriving and flourishing in a life of inner peace.”
― Sandra C Bibb

“Though it is becoming an increasingly popular area of advocacy, the United States continues to top the list of nations that are disconnected from the basic concept of relieving a mother of overwork and giving her dancing hormones the time and space to regulate through rest and proper nutrition. It's a grin-and-bear-it moment (complete with dark circles and wan complexion). And, these days, with more and more women literally and energetically holding the home together as the primary breadwinner, and very often as the emotional center of the home as well, the postpartum period becomes a pressure cooker. The unconscious message beamed from all angles is," Get back at it. You can't afford to rest. "

But it seems we can't afford not to. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that when deliberate physical care and support surround a new mother after birth, as well as rituals that acknowledge the magnitude of the event of birth, postpartum anxiety and its more serious expression, postpartum depression, are much less likely to get a foothold. Consider that the key causes of these disturbingly common, yet still highly underreported, syndromes include isolation, extreme fatigue, overwork, shame or trauma about birth and one's body, difficulties and worries about breastfeeding, and nutritional depletion, all of which suggests that when we let go of the old ways, we inadvertently helped create a perfect storm of factors for postpartum depression.”
― Heng Ou, The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother