Quotes About Resilience

Change the things that can be changed, accept those that cannot, and have the wisdom to know the difference.

If you do, there will come a day when you'll rarely feel the need to do battle at all.

The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, "This too shall pass." It will.

Love your plant whether it blooms or not, whether it lives or dies.

Rather than stumbling and fighting against their negative feelings, they are graceful in their acceptance of them.

Fortunately, there is an inviolable law in our emotional environment that goes something like this: Our current level of stress will be exactly that of our tolerance to stress.

The more patient you are, the more accepting you will be of what is, rather than insisting that life be exactly as you would like it to be.

Mark Twain said, "I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Be Grateful when You're Feeling Good and Graceful when You're Feeling Bad

Circumstances don't make a person, they reveal him or her.

Patience adds a dimension of ease and acceptance to your life.

The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself -? ?and that is what it is when it dies? ?- the body tends to revert to a state of? equilibrium with its environment.

Half a wing could save your life by easing your fall from a tree of a certain height. And 51 per cent of a wing could save you if you fall from a slightly taller tree.

I should have been put down at birth.

You may grind their souls in the self-same mill, You may bind them, heart and brow; But the poet will follow the rainbow still, And his brother will follow the plow. JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY (1844–90) 'The Rainbow's Treasure

Your fight is long from over, Deon. More of your kind will come... and they will come for you.

Richard E Simmons III

Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you're Superman, invincible. In the second, you're aware that things are dangerous and you need to be careful. In the third, you conclude that math and probability are working against you. In the fourth, you know you're going to die because you've played the game too long. I was drifting into stage three.

The bombing started up again, with explosions all around us, in broad daylight, but no one in the restaurant even flinched. Iraqis seemed numb after a quarter century under Saddam's whip-hand rule. It was heartbreaking to see what a harsh dictatorship can do to the human soul. In less than a week, I had grown almost inured to explosions and fires.

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

There are moments, most unexpectedly, when something inside me tries to assure me that I don't really mind so much, not so very much, after all. Love is not the whole of a man's life. I was happy before I ever met H. I've plenty of what are called "resources." People get over these things. Come, I shan't do so badly.… Then comes a sudden jab of red-hot memory and all this "commonsense" vanishes like an ant in the mouth of a furnace.

Life can be difficult and no one escapes its challenges. Sooner or later you will find yourself pressed to your limits. It may come in the form of a broken relationship, or unemployment, or a serious illness, or the death of a loved one. When it comes you will be tempted to define your life by that painful experience. Don't succumb to that temptation. Refuse to define your life by any single event, whatever it may be. Its a real part of your life, but that is all--just a part.