Quotes About Resilience

Declare that you're not going to fight. Don't fight colds, illnesses, or even serious afflictions. Don't fight with family members, or against political opinions. Don't fight addictions, and most important, don't fight yourself.

Fully functioning people never complain, and particularly they don't complain about the rocks being rough, or the sky being cloudy or the ice being too cold. Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds, on the heel that has crushed it.

Living Untroubled by Good or Bad Fortune

Things can break down, a depression can wipe out your money, your house can be repossessed, but you, you can be a rock of self-esteem.

My book is developing into a guide for cutting through a lifetime of emotional red tape. I've written it not because of my advanced educational training, but more in spite of it.

Changing the way you think, or feel, or live is possible but never easy.

Experiences of pain, loss, fear, anger, and even hatred seem to vanish when you remember that this is a part of the perfect blossoming of natural law; and there will soon be a time for comfort, peace, and love.

suffering is a part of the human condition that no one escapes in their lifetime, and that it may be more despairing for some than others.

those who held on to a vision of the future were the ones throughout this ordeal who seemed to have a better chance for survival.

Do not resist the natural course of your life.

Only when we are sick of our sickness shall we cease to be sick.

Begin to view your emotional life as independent of whatever anyone else does. This will free you from the chains of being hurt when others behave differently from the way you want them to.

recognize in the heat of battle that the battle itself is something to grieve about.

As long as you feel that you have to do anything because it is expected of you in a particular relationship, and your doing it creates any resentment or your not doing it any guilt, you can count yourself as having work to do in this erroneous zone.

When you maintain a peaceful inner posture, even in the midst of chaos, you change your life.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any time.

If you can meet triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same . . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it.

This lack of emotional involvement in problems makes them able to surmount barriers that remain insurmountable to others.

in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart…. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.

the idea of looking at the most damaging things in your life, the things that have caused you the most pain and suffering, and figuring out a way to turn those into your greatest teachers, bearing your greatest gifts.

Benjamin Franklin once observed, "While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Once you learn that you can feel what you choose to feel, you will be on the road to intelligence—a road where there are no bypaths that lead to [Nervous Break Downs]

You don't learn much from a victory except to stay the same.