Quotes About Resilience

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

Happiness is not being afraid.

Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.