Quotes About Resilience

One little six-year-old took home a note saying he need not come to school since he was "too stupid to learn." That boy was Thomas Edison.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

Emotional luggage nothing of it, I don't check bags, I just carry on, leave that bullshit in the past

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

You survived the abuse, you're going to survive the recovery.

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

I am strong, determined, impulsive, happy, and emotional.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

Think of today as an opportunity to discover and grow beyond your mental and emotional discomfort.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.