Quotes About Resilience

If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that the best is yet to come. Think that the reasons that elude you will one day catch up, that the lessons that have stumped you will one day bring joy, and that the sorrows that have crippled you will soon give you wings. Think that you're important, that you cannot fail, and that happiness always returns. And think that you're beautiful.

There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through.

Life's adventures are only possible because of life's challenges.

Life is not meant to be hard so that you can be happy beyond it. The happy "ending," therefore, comes with finally understanding those tricky areas you move through while you are alive. The key is that you do indeed need to move through them and not "stop reading at the scary parts"; you must prevail, hang on, and keep trucking to emerge on the other side of whatever the tricky area was.

See more. Look with understanding. Help others regain use of their power.

You are not meant to bear that which you find unpleasant; you are meant to change it.

sometimes in life you must take one step back to take many more forward.

Why let grief for what "is not" blind you to what "still is and must always be

Everything works out in the end. If it looks like things aren't working out, it's not the end.

By accepting or even welcoming your challenges, you create opportunities for their gifts to be revealed.

There are no bad dogs. Every cat gets more lives.

But there's no such thing as an unchallenged life. And whether or not a person's challenges are visible to others, or greater or lesser than others may have experienced, doesn't change the fact that they exist.

Don't we already intuitively accept that every dark cloud has a silver lining? And that when you see no such lining, perhaps it's because you have more to learn, not because it isn't there?

Don't confuse staying the course with clinging to a cursed 'how'.

Dwelling upon what once hurt you will only bring new surprises, new losses, more disappointments—new reasons to be hurt.

Whosoever may torment you, harass you, confound you, or upset you is a teacher. Not because they're wise, but because you seek to become so.

Staying the course" should not be confused with clinging to a cursed "how.

You are unstoppable now, naturally more positive than negative, inclined to succeed, and born to thrive.

Seek not to fix or change others, especially when they've hurt you. Neither should you find excuses for their behavior or "learn to love them"—however good a sound bite the latter makes. What will serve you most is to create as much space as possible within which to heal, be distracted, and fill your life with new friends, ideas, and adventures.

I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Second chancers understand our brokenness isn't something to hide but to integrate into our lives. We do not need to be ashamed. No matter what the world says, we are not "less than" for being broken.

The quick reflexes, the calmness in the face of a storm, the ability to think in the midst of danger that most people don't have.

In the reverse economy of Jesus, the things that break us, God inverts to shape us.