Quotes About Resilience

Crazy people will always be present in our lives.

We can't stop various events from happening, and we can't choose what other people do or say. Crazy people will always be present in our lives.

downs. Healthy people learn how to live with both. They enjoy the good but aren't devastated by the bad. Joy means appreciating the positive experiences in life but finding meaning in the tough times as well. It means living lightly and realistically, no matter what happens.

5. You don't have to be a victim. In a toxic relationship, it's easy to feel sucked dry by another person. It's true that they might never change, and there could always be drama in the relationship. But we don't have to let them mess up our lives.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference."5

People can't drive you crazy if you don't give them the keys.

It's inappropriate to have debilitating anger over events we can't control.

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

As John Piper puts it, "For people who are passing through the dark night of the soul, turnaround will come because God brings unwavering lovers of Christ into their lives who do not give up on them."24

Sometimes you just need to steer into the wind, meet the wave head-on, and trust in your ship.

Chapter Seven RAINING = POURING

When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.

The world seems to work in predictable ways, and you think you see the pattern. But that's fatal. Because it's only a pattern until you meet the first event that doesn't fit. And by then it's too late. By then, all the tricks you've learned to deal with the world -- well, they just don't work anymore.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

No plan survives contact with the enemy." —Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.

You never really lose until you quit trying.

You're never a loser until you quit trying

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

You're never a loser until you quit trying." -Mike Ditka

Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.

A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches..., you are the same.

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.