Quotes about Resilience

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

It takes a little time sometimes to get your feet back on the ground.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Those who fled will fight another time.

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Fear comes, but fear passes.

There's a biblical story where Jesus says we can build our house on sand or we can build it on rock. Our house is our emotional stability. When it is built on sand, then the winds and rain can tear it down. One disappointing phone call and we crumble; one storm and the house falls down. When our house is built on rock, then it is sturdy and strong and the storms can't destroy it.

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.

Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable.