Quotes about Resilience

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

Who has not seen a frail, clinging-vine type of woman, who upon the death of her husband strainghtens up and becomes an oak, around which the growing children twine their lives, and are forever greatful for such a mother? But this strength would never have come out and developed had it not been for the tears that watered the vine and made it into an oak.

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.