Quotes About Resilience

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

Strange how, after deciding to take life as one finds it, life comes fawning to one's hand.

I'm as strong as I'll ever be without change of interests and surroundings.

2Cor4: 8,9 Because faith gives you the power to hold on in tough times, it produces persistence.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.

Hard wood grows slowly. Be thoughtful about the shape you want to grow into, and be mindful that there is no shortcut to strength and character. Have the patience to allow yourself and your goals to develop.

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed—if it remains open there is nothing to break.

A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

This is the best worst time of my life.

Today they are still strong and self-sufficient, not wilting flowers waiting for a man to help. They shoe their own horses and peel logs and build homes and get anything done that needs doing. They are feminine and wild as a mountain meadow.

What bends does not break.

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

My hands are small, I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own And I am never broken

We are not in the business of fighting darkness. We are farmers of light.