Quotes about Resilience

Remember, you can't avoid conflict, but it can be a place where amazing growth takes place!

Understand that conflict is one way God works in our lives

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Do you think that I would not have let you know that, if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that man had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase?

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature

One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.

He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.