Quotes About Resilience

But if with trembling and lamentation you seek not to fall into that which you avoid, tell me how you are improving.

________ Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

Do not worry if others criticize or laugh at you, for their opinions are not your concern.

So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.

Lead me, Fate, wherever you will, and I will cheerfully follow. For, even if I kick and wail, all the same I must follow. —Cleanthes

Whoever yields to fate becomes wise, by learning the laws of heaven. —Euripides

Behold the birth of tragedy: when idiots come face to face with the vicissitudes of life.

I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?

Take example from the wrestling-masters. Has the boy fallen down? Get up, again, they say; wrestle again until you have made yourself strong. That's the sort of attitude you should have…For both ruin and salvation have their source within you.

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature.

Este es el origen del sufrimiento, querer algo y que no suceda

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

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.

you have the power of patience to deal with your difficulties.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would want them too. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible

A man asked me to write to Rome on his behalf who, as most people thought, had met with misfortune; for having been before wealthy and distinguished, he had afterwards lost all and was living here. So I wrote about him in a humble style. He however on reading the letter returned it to me, with the words: I asked for your help, not for your pity. No evil has happened unto me.

Don't let the force of the impression when first it hits you knock you off your feet; just say to it, 'Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent.

Cilv?ks necieš no notikumiem, bet gan no to interpret?cijas. (Epikt?ts, 50–135.g.)

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.

Put away the fear of death, and however much thunder and lightning you have to face, you will find the mind capable of remaining calm and composed regardless.

In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral means to tolerate.

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it is easier to maintain control.

An ignorant person is one who is tossed about between elation and despair by external forces and events.

You must realize that death and illness are bound to overtake us whatever it is we're doing. They overtake the farmer at the plough, the sailor at the helm; [6] what do you want to be doing when they come upon you? Because you have to be doing something when you go; and if you can find anything better than this to be doing, then do it by all means.