Quotes About Resilience

Numquam snantur dfrmis vulnera fmae. (Cato Dist. Appendix 5:

na dis aperit, cnficit na dis. (Ausonius Ros. Nasc.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

T)his is precisely the importance of the world-view described in the Book of Changes: there is no situation without a way out. All situations are stages of change. Therefore, even when things are most difficult we can plant the seed for a new situation that will preserve within itself the present situation, though we must be capable of adapting and finding the proper attitude.

The question for her is not whether to exercise violence but how to survive it, how to denounce it in a way that will effectively set women free from its destructive effects.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

They walked on, somehow in step, although all three of them were bent forever in different shapes by the pains that pulled them.

Getting over things is often about helping people to learn how to get their minds to let go of things. It means that you put your problems into the past where they belong.

THE FIRST THING TO put into your past and keep there are the bad suggestions others have shared with you.

After interviewing hundreds of people, I found out how people got over phobias. They all reached the point where they got fed up with being afraid.

If you run through all five and go back to the beginning and run through all five again and go back to the beginning and run through all five again really, really fast, what will happen is that you'll begin to feel fed up. There'll be a point where something inside you says, Enough is enough.

When I studied phobias, I didn't study the people who had them. I studied the people who got over them.

All of these people, as they told me their stories, shared certain things in common. One example was that they reached a point where they got so fed up they stopped thinking about what scared them. They started to look at themselves being afraid and started thinking, This is really silly. Elements like these, which they all shared in common, allowed me to develop the first "phobia cure." It wasn't really a "cure" so much as a "lesson.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.

Father Diny interrupted to tell Joe a story about the World War II pilot with this slogan on his plane: Non illegitimi carborundum. Biden looked at him quizzically ... he didn't remember much Latin. "Loosely translated," Father Diny continued, "it means: Don't let the bastards get you down.

And, together, we can make America great, and strong again.

Shi Zhe wrote in his memoir, "and if you didn't confess you were tortured and stayed in prison. The more stories you made up the better you were treated.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.