Running Backward Quotes

“Adversities strip us of safety, comfort, and even faith. We break open. We fall apart. But in the aching chasm of all that we once believed, we have the chance of actualizing unrealized parts of ourselves. It’s in that space in between, between who we were and what we now have the power to become, that there’s the opportunity for true transformation.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“We cannot develop resilience without first enduring.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“And lost parts of myself began to awake, strengths that were familiar and yet strangely elusive becoming realized, like a match sparking a fire that had always been possible but never ignited.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“Just because it hurts, doesn’t mean you’re not healing.

Healing hurts.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“Sometimes we have to change our dreams to fit our lives.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“What we become is not a result of what happens to us, but how we understand ourselves in the context of our experience.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“I used to think knots in my stomach meant I really liked someone, but now I knew it was my body’s alarm system telling me my emotions were not safe”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“There was a side of him I believed only I knew, but then we are often blinded by what we want to see. Torn in half, I held onto hope, struggling not to plummet into the chasm of my own irreconcilability.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“He betrayed me so badly that I didn’t even know if I had the same love for him anymore. I wanted him to prove himself otherwise, because I wanted back the good feelings. But because the trust had been broken, I couldn’t believe anything he did or said.

I was left wondering how this man could have been there all along, yet I never saw it.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“Freedom and inner peace are not something we fight for, but something we find only when we learn to let the battle go.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“I realized that real love, the kind that lasts a lifetime, is never possessive. It’s never suffocating. It breathes. It lives. We feel it. But we also know how to let the attachment go.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“We are tempted by our familiar way of doing things however maladaptive or self-destructive they can be.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward