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Quotes About Resilience

We smile, because this is how we save the world.
~ Isaac Marion
It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.
~ Florence Henderson
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery
~ Anne Frank
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
~ Vikram Seth
Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.
~ Mary Lou Retton
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
~ Emily Dickinson
Love is the only effective counter to death.
~ Maureen Duffy
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
~ Douglas Coupland
Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance
~ Arianna Huffington
Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
~ Emily Giffin
I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
~ Euripides
If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.
~ Frederick Lenz
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
~ Dalai Lama
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
~ Victor Hugo
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.
~ Carol Shields, Unless
There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.
~ Kris Radish
Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
~ William Wordsworth
We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.
~ Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
~ Henrik Ibsen
you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.
~ Tracie Peterson