Quotes About Resilience

Saw I was evidently throwing myself into all hardships and distressed in my present undertaking. I thought it would be less difficult to lie down in the grave; but yet I chose to go rather than stay.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

A successfull man is who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at us.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him.

Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.

People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display.

When people remember the past, they don't only talk about happiness. It is often the ordeals that seem most significant. People shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

His moral task was to suffer well, to be worthy of his sufferings. He could not control how much he suffered, but he could control his inner response to his sufferings.

The first big thing suffering does is it drags you deeper into yourself.

People who endure suffering are taken beneath the routine busyness of life and find they are not who they believed themselves to be.

The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal

The hero becomes strongest at his weakest point.

The beauty in life is in the struggles along the way to character.

The Orchid and the Dandelion (La orquídea y el diente de león)

The inner struggle against one's own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

You refuse to give in to the perfectionistic habit, and you allow yourself to become flooded with fear and discomfort.

Cope, Don't Mope

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves. It's powerful stuff.