Quotes About Resilience

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No es lo que te ocurre, sino cómo reaccionas lo que importa (Epíteto)

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

If someone tried to take control of your body and make you a slave, you would fight for freedom. Yet how easily you hand over your mind to anyone who insults you. When you dwell on their words and let them dominate your thoughts, you make them your master.

when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say "I won't play any longer", and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Difficulty shows what men are.

Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.

Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

Those who are well constituted in the body endure both heat and cold: and so those who are well constituted in the soul endure both anger and grief and excessive joy and the other affects.

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.

Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided.