Quotes about Resilience

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.

But we are not just called to be candles. We are called to be fire. Candles can be snuffed out by the slightest wind or by the smallest child on their birthday. But it's harder to put out a fire. We are to be fire, to weave our lives together so that the Spirit's inferno of love spreads across the earth.

But it was hard to stay cynical, as I met more and more beautiful people.

Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, "No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.

to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change.

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.