Quotes About Resilience

Aren't personal crises, loss, sadness, and periods of emotional darkness just part of human nature? Absolutely!

Our illness is often our healing.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

There's no such thing as a superhuman. But the only thing I got to tell you, if you take a dog and kick him around he's got to be alert, he's got to be more sharper than you. Well, we've been kicked around for two thousand years. We're not more smarter, we're more alert.

Don't give up so fast, the best always comes last.

You are not a failure when you fall down, you become one when you stay down. To succeed you must keep rising one more time.

if you are being bullyed do not leave the school you go to beacause if you do you are tell the bully they have win.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.

At one time the Irish had been forbidden by English law to educate their children, to own a horse worth more than five pounds, to play the Irish pipes, to wear the color green… the list went on and on. Most of the oppressive statutes were no longer enforced, but the shamed submission they had engendered remained.

Everything hurts, Fergal. All the time. Start with that and life won't be able to disappoint you.

I walk on the surface of a shifting bog. I have to grab for whatever I can find that is solid.

Tomorrow will be better." But what if it's not?" I asked. Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

Sisyphus. Have you people nothing better

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion

Every sturdy tree that towers over human beings owes its existence to a deeply rooted core.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.

One should be prepared to receive 99 percent of an enemy's attack and stare death right in the face in order to illumine the Path. Regardless of how grim a situation, it is still possible to turn things around in your favor

Face a single foe as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe

Your spirit is the true shield.

Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks.