Quotes About Resilience

Nobody can get across now! We'll have to stay here days and days, and we've got nothing to eat, and we'll freeze to death at night, and I didn't even tell my dad I was coming here, and I'll get a whipping when I get home!" Tom smiled thinly and tried to make a joke out of it. "I thought you were going to freeze to death," he said.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Even if you attempt to ignore the loss, the emotional experience of it is implanted in your heart and mind, and no eraser will remove it.

Numerous studies have shown that your health risk is higher following a loss.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Fear is the worst virus of all, and the cure is love

In a sense, it seems I am drowning; already half-drowned to the ordinary dimensions of space and time, I know that I must drown, as it were, completely in order to come out on the other side of things (like Alice with her looking-glass or Perseus with his mirror). I must drown completely and come out on the other side, or rise to the surface after the third time down, not dead to this life but with a new set of values, my treasures dredged from the depth. I must be born again or break utterly.

Nothing held her, she was nothing holding to this thing: I am Hermione Gart, a failure.

By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result—fudoshin, the "immovable mind.

All is as it should be. Learn, let go, move on

As long as we don't give up, we don't fail. We just continue to learn

Beauty is more than skin deep. Beauty radiates from deep within. The innocence of a child. The love in someone's heart. A willingness to help others. The desire to make the world a better place. Someone painfully knocked down in life, who gets up, smiles, and continues to blossom.

Defeat is embracing what doesn't work

Disease is stress manifesting

Don't hold resentments for the experiences that helped make you who you are

Guilt cannot change the past any more than worry can change the future

Mistakes are not failure if we learn from them

Resistance wears us down and dims our light

Strength is forged out of struggle

The storms in life are there to help us grow, washing away the old, clearing a path for the new, teaching us strength, teaching us wisdom. The storms in life are not obstacles to life. The storms in life are life.

We cannot get over something while resisting it