Quotes about Resilience

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

When you use concentration to run away from yourself or your situation, it is wrong concentration. Sometimes we need to escape our problems for relief, but at some time we have to return to face them. Worldly concentration seeks to escape. Supramundane concentration aims at complete liberation.

Once a seed has been burnt, it cannot sprout anymore. If we are able to burn up the seeds of grief, sexual desire, and hatred, they will not sprout again.

I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance — that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.