Quotes About Resilience

Epictetus, who said, "It's not events, but our opinions about them, which cause us suffering.

If you have early success, do your best to ignore the praise and keep pushing yourself to the edges of your ability, where improvement happens. If you don't have early success, don't quit. Instead, treat your early efforts as experiments, not as verdicts. Remember, this is a marathon, not a sprint.

What is one thing that I currently do that you'd like me to continue to do? What is one thing that I don't currently do frequently enough that you think I should do more often? • What can I do to make you more effective?

Building habits of group vulnerability is like building a muscle. It takes time, repetition, and the willingness to feel pain in order to achieve gains. And as with building muscle, the first key is to approach the process with a plan.

This group performed well no matter what he did. Nick said it was mostly because of one guy. You can see this guy is causing Nick to get almost infuriated—his negative moves aren't working like they had in the other groups, because this guy could find a way to flip it and engage everyone and get people moving toward the goal.

purposely operating at the edges of their ability, so they will screw up. And somehow screwing up is making them better.

But they succeeded because they understood that being vulnerable together is the only way a team can become invulnerable.

You will become clever through your mistakes.

Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...

There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn't slept, either. She was still wearing the same dress. Her hair looked like a bomb had gone off. She was beautiful.

Somehow, at some point, I'd developed a serious problem. I'd started handling every single situation exactly the way it shouldn't be handled.

You don't have to do a bunch of crazy stuff to make your life complete. You just have to deal with life.

longer in extended bad weather. For passengers in steerage—scores

Low thyroid doesn't kill you. It just makes you wish you were dead. —RICHARD AND KARILEE SHAMES, THYROID MIND POWER THYROID

Pollyanna's philosophy about finding something to be glad about in any situation is an excellent way to go through life. If there were ever a good time to play the Glad Game, then today would undoubtedly qualify. But no matter what situation or setback you find yourself in, I urge you to ask yourself this question: What is there to be glad about?

The statistics may seem grim, but you deserve to be happy, and you can cultivate happiness even when it seems like the world is crumbling around you.

I keep fighting voices in my head that say I'm not enough. LAUREN DAIGLE, "YOU SAY

Practice saying no to the things that are not good for you, and over time, you will find it easier to do.

events that challenge our optimistic beliefs can sometimes make us more rather than less optimistic.

will not tremble," Cicero wrote in the first century BC, "however much it is tortured.