Sarah Verno > Sarah's Quotes

“It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.”
― Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath

“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. ”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The reason some of us are such poor specimens of Christianity is because we have no Almighty Christ. We have Christian attributes and experiences, but there is no abandonment to Jesus Christ.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“grounded hope”—the understanding that if you take action you can make things better.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me.” Slowly,”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“skyscraper would remain one of the most peculiarly American of white-collar institutions, much more a symbol of the prowess, even ruthlessness, of American-style capitalism than what it equally was: an especially tall collection of boring offices.”
― Nikil Saval, Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace

“Play is the exultation of the possible.”
― Martin Buber

“Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck. It comes from analyzing how we process grief and from simply accepting that grief. Sometimes we have less control than we think. Other times we have more. I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I am more vulnerable than I thought, but much stronger than I ever imagined.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried.

Survival in grief, even eventually building a new life alongside grief, comes with the willingness to bear witness, both to yourself and to the others who find themselves inside this life they didn’t see coming. Together, we create real hope for ourselves,
and for one another. We need each other to survive.

I wish this for you: to find the people you belong with, the ones who will see your pain, companion you, hold you close,
even as the heavy lifting of grief is yours alone. As hard as they may seem to find at times, your community is out there. Look
for them. Collect them. Knit them into a vast flotilla of light that can hold you.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“When companies fail, it’s usually for reasons that almost everyone knows but almost no one has voiced. When someone isn’t making good decisions, few have the guts to tell that person, especially if that person is the boss. One”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“I thought resilience was the capacity to endure pain, so I asked Adam how I could figure out how much I had. He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone. Since”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“We find our humanity—our will to live and our ability to love—in our connections to one another.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Where there is love, it is Jesus that will surely triumph.”
― Richard Wurmbrand, The Church in chains

“This is the second worst moment of our lives. We lived through the first and we will live through this. It can only get better from here.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“When we are no longer able to change a situation,” psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, “we are challenged to change ourselves.” After”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.”
― Oswald Chambers

“Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp, the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible self. After”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain.”
― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert, KJV

“A day of joy is fifteen minutes. A day of pain is fifteen years,” he said. “No one pretends this is easy, but the job of life is to make those fifteen minutes into fifteen years and those fifteen years into fifteen minutes.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“caring means that when someone is hurting, you cannot imagine being anywhere else. This”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

“Adam has published five different studies demonstrating that meaningful work buffers against burnout.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don’t, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Option B

“Nearly all God's jewels are crystallized tears.”
― Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert, KJV

“Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.”
― Phillips Brooks