Quotes About Resilience

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Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

It is difficult to accept changes for the worse.

The effects of high optimism on decision making are, at best, a mixed blessing, but the contribution of optimism to good implementation is certainly positive. The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setbacks.

Their recommendation is that you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

el esfuerzo de la voluntad o autocontrol es fatigoso; si hemos de forzarnos a hacer algo, estamos menos dispuestos, o somos menos capaces, de ejercer el autocontrol si el próximo reto está cerca. El fenómeno se ha denominado agotamiento del ego.

ego-depleted people therefore succumb more quickly to the urge to quit.

Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular; they are resilient in adapting to failures and hardships, their chances of clinical depression are reduced, their immune system is stronger, they take better care of their health, they feel healthier than others and are in fact likely to live longer.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

La adaptación a una nueva situación, sea buena o mala, consiste en gran parte en pensar cada vez menos en ella. En

Adaptation to a new situation, whether good or bad, consists in large part of thinking less and less about it.

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can

Inzwischen geht es ihm besser, manche Tage seien schon fieberfrei, auch die Träume, in denen er Baron Humboldt erwürge, zerhacke, erschieße, anzünde, vergifte oder unter Steinen begrabe, würden seltener.

Man kann dem Schrecken gegenübertreten, bis er nachgibt und sich zurückzieht.

AND NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FAIL, WHILE LIFE REMAINS YOU CAN ALWAYS GIVE YOURSELF ANOTHER CHANCE EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE WILL; CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE TO TRY AGAIN.

NEVER HURT ANYONE YOU DON'T HAVE TO; NEVER TAKE ANY SHIT FROM ANYONE. WHEN YOU ARE READY TO DIE RATHER THAN BE PUSHED, PEOPLE WILL STOP PUSHING YOU. WHEN YOU'RE NOT AFRAID, NO ONE CAN HAVE A HOLD UPON YOU THAT YOU DON'T GIVE THEM WILLINGLY.

If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.

LET GO, JASON. PAIN GOES AWAY, AND IT HURTS LESS THAN FEAR WHILE IT LASTS. NOTHING DOES LAST, NOT GOOD THINGS OR BAD, NOT SUCCESS OR FAILURE, NOT LIFE ITSELF; AND NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FAIL, WHILE LIFE REMAINS YOU CAN ALWAYS GIVE YOURSELF ANOTHER CHANCE EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE WILL; CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE TO TRY AGAIN.

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

What is suffering? The desire for things to be other than they are. What is contentment? Accepting everything as it is.

When life becomes difficult, allow yourself to feel the pain in the moment. Go with it for as long as it lasts, and then watch it dissolve away. Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.