Quotes About Resilience

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

One of the things I'm learning is that crisis passes, and for anyone suffering I think it's important to know that.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine.

It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do nothing but suffer.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.

Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.