Quotes About Resilience

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

But enough research has been done to indicate that those individuals with determination to overcome an illness tend to have a greater tolerance to severe pain than those who are morbidly apprehensive.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

The tragedy of life is not death it is what we let die inside of us while we live.

Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore and weaken whatever powers they have for standing erect. There is always a margin within which life can be lived with meaning and even with a certain measure of joy, despite illness.

We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" . . . and the death of post-modernism.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

Nature has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

learned nonuse,

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

part three, "Transformation." In closing, please reconsider the words of Hans Selye, the father of stress research, whom I quote also at the top of this chapter: It is not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

I now think that all high performers have in common, knowingly or unknowingly, qualities and characteristics of the Super Mind. That is, they are calm under pressure and uncannily resilient to stress. They take care of their health, set high standards of innovation and creativity, and are not only intensely engaged in their actions but also capable of detaching when need be. They choose their projects carefully, keep the big picture in mind, and ignore trifling details.

There is an art to losing, and like all art, it can be developed.

In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.

When we train our mind to embrace what's hard instead of trying to get rid of it, we have begun to walk a path of growth, happiness, and true resilience. Our

Before the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe had things their own way. They had won in Spain, in Poland, in Belgium, in France. Over Britain, for the first time, they came up against something they couldn't beat. It was not easy for them to understand that.

What is a good man if not one who does not believe in himself to the exclusion of others? ... He was asked to bear what cannot be borne--what should not be borne. I hope never to be so tested, for I have it on the best authority that I will not bear it.

I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to

There are bad journeys, to a bitter place I can't go to – yet, I lean towards it, tugging to get there, and thank God I'm clogged with the world. It grips me, I hold it.