Quotes About Resilience

Both of our parents lived their lives practicing gaman—patience and resilience," said Nobusuke, the second-born son. "They never wasted anything—not food, time, or anger. Instead, they waited for things to work out.

As they bore witness to their experiences behind barbed wire in Crystal City and to their brutal transport into war in Germany and Japan, the former internees did not ask why they were made to suffer but how could suffering be endured. The

The second phrase was gaman, which means to find some physical practice such as meditation, calligraphy, or the making of art that would help one persevere in the face of what seemed unbearable.

Even as a child, I understood my family was a casualty of war. It could not be helped.

In the challenging desert terrain, internees raised livestock and produced enough vegetables to feed the entire camp. On-site

I began to tell myself that if I'd survived Bergen-Belsen, I could survive anything," said Irene. "I tried to focus not on what I'd lost, but what I had to gain. It was a struggle." In

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges

She thought that one of the hardest parts of marriage was being loving when both partners were exhausted or wounded at the same time. When you had the least strength, that's when you had to dig beyond your limits and grab whatever could be found and give it away.

I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

His feelings of panic had passed once before; it would pass again, he told himself. He must go forward on faith, not feeling.

Though we don't do it often enough, it's easy to have a grateful heart for food and shelter, love and hope, health and peace. But what about the hard stuff, the stuff that darkens your world and wounds you to the quick? Just what is this everything business? "It's the hook. It's the key. Everything is the word on which this whole powerful command stands and has its being.

His style was to give the issue to God and haul it back again, ad infinitum, 'til the cows came home, until the thing finally wore itself out in him.

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind," he read aloud from Paul's second letter to Timothy.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit," he exclaimed, his breath vaporizing on the frosty air. "The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are!

Someone had said that in Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather—only the wrong clothes.

Fear is one of the Enemy's deadliest strategies.

He didn't want to 'snuggle in' for the winter. He wanted to do something that got his blood up and skip the depression he sometimes suffered when 'earth stood hard as iron.

He knew only that he must get on with his life, which lately seemed to have passed him by.

I'd like you to know that I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?

Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)