Quotes About Resilience

master…Fear

What is to give light must endure burning. VIKTOR FRANKL

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it

The ability to express feelings is an important life skill. But forever expressing upset feelings tends to restimulate them.

When running up a hill, it's all right to give up…as long as your feet keep moving.

Life develops what it demands

Warriors confront their demons head-on; by doing so, you've dissolved them

Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.

What good to conquer an enemy in battle, only to be vanquished by hunger or cold?

of course, we don't love painful feelings like anxiety or depression. We don't have to love or even like them, but we do have to accept them, as difficult as that can seem at times.

The heart of accepting your emotions (and, as you've seen, of reclaiming your will) is to do what you need to do despite what you are feeling.

you may stir up problems around you because you're used to keeping life a little aggravating—because you don't cope well with smooth sailing. As

Then act—because success always boils down to this: Know your adversaries; then apply your will.

Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.

When on a long trek, it's okay to quit whenever you like, as long as your feet keep moving.

You focused on the goal, not on the obstacle. This is how we face our lives.

Besser, du machst mit der vollen Kraft deines Seins einen Fehler, als dass du mit verzagendem Mut jeden Fehler vermeiden willst.

David cannot recall being hugged, kissed, or told he was loved by his parents. The only physical comfort he had was from "Mammy," an African-American housekeeper who recognized David's needs and provided solace. On Saturdays she'd take him to a movie, where she was allowed to sit with him in the whites' section. He is convinced that, "If I hadn't had Mammy, I would have been in much worse shape.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

Inside all of us, she reflected, were smiling bones. She would do her best to remember from now on that even on the hardest days there was always a smile underneath her skin.

all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse?

Pain is the curl and foam of a wave that does not break.

Odd how the daily imperatives persist even in the face of collective disaster.