Quotes About Resilience

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.

No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!

You're in a fight and have to dig down... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

Producing the vibration of love is based on your ability to feel deep pain...go into those feelings...and to find peace once again.