Quotes About Resilience

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

What the hell are we supposed to do!" Nixon exploded in exasperation. "Paint our asses white and run with the antelopes!

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless, fangless, clawless, nearly furless, wingless, venomless, witless. I honestly didn't understand how they had thrived so.

Life in a box was unbearable. How did humans stand it?

So I'd been captured? So I was starving? Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die? I could still slither. I could still hiss. Nothing had been stolen from me except my freedom. What I needed was a new plan.

Put your sails up and prepare them for action, but recognize that the wind will blow when it chooses to, not when you want it to.

The best way for a person to live, according to Taoism, is to submit to whatever life brings and be flexible.

If a person adapts to the changes in life easily, that person will be happy;

Taoism shares quite a few similarities with Buddhism and Stoicism—Buddhism is about releasing all attachments, where Stoicism is about acknowledging and growing from discomfort. Together, these philosophies create an incredibly resilient mind.

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, most people live lives of quiet desperation.

But unlike your shadow, it's deadset on ruining your life!

Fourth: immune people. Everyone has safe people whom they actually don't really drain with and whom they feel absolute safety with. For some,

Flexibility and the ability to adapt are paramount to any great conversation.

intending to push on at night again. We spent a

I don't think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it's not a little uncomfortable, then it's not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.

The I is a concept that resists its own nullity as if life depended upon it.

Life, he told himself, is a palimpsest of expunged experiences.

which encouraged a general sense of fellowship in the chaotic shipwreck that is old age.

In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie back and allow ourselves to float along calmly over the deep waters, with our eyes closed.