Quotes About Resilience

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Sitting Bull on the plains of the Yellowstone and his pursuit of Geronimo

In Cody's version

the lives of the Codys in North Platte, Nebraska. Two other volumes have been especially helpful:

the wagons were turned clear around, and many of the terrified oxen attempted to turn to the hills, with the heavy wagons attached to them. Others turned around so short

ROBERT A. CARTER

Robert A. Carter

fighting for their existence." Deloria also notes that

on the town site of Omaha, then a community of cotton tents and shanties, where lots were being offered to anyone willing to build on them. They refused this offer and pressed on to their final

We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

It's best never to think that the worst of today will be the framework of tomorrow.

Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining.

Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.

What is good is irrepressible.

Choose one area in which you have been out of integrity. Identify your fear that keeps you from telling the truth or doing the right thing. Reveal this situation to a safe person. Then go and tell the truth or do what you have to do to make the situation right. Tell yourself you can handle it. Since telling the truth may create a crisis for you or others, have faith that everyone involved will survive this crisis.

Life isn't a merry-go-round, it's a roller coaster.

define personal power as a state of mind in which a person is confident he can handle whatever may come. This kind of power not only successfully deals with problems, challenges and adversity, it actually welcomes them, meets them head on, and is thankful for them. Personal power isn't the absence of fear. Even the most powerful people have fear. Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

The ability to keep going even when things look bleak, when you feel beaten, and to fight off the sense of loss and despair. Whatever the reason. The will to survive might just get you through a disaster that claims scores of other lives.

it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.