Quotes About Resilience

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement, and then do not reach it.

it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." (p.23)

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are

Nature's kind trick is to make everything happen so slowly that we don't get as scared as we should.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.

It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy.

Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

We appreciate beauty more when we are aware of life's troubles. — 8. Henri Fantin-Latour, Chrysanthemums, 1871

Neither does philosophy deny the utility of certain kinds of anxiety. After all, as successful insomniacs have long suggested, it may be the anxious who survive best in the world.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.

Curajul de a nu fi înfrânt de anxietate, de a nu-i r?ni pe alÈ›ii din frustrare, de-a nu se înfuria prea mult pe lume pentru r?nile vizibile pe care le provoac?, de-a nu înnebuni È™i de-a reuÈ™i cumva s? treac?, mai bine sau mai r?u, prin greut??ile c?sniciei - acesta e adev?ratul curaj, acesta e eroismul care nu poate fi comparat cu nimic.