Quotes About Resilience

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears.

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.