Quotes about Resilience

Eric Hoffer, the street philosopher, put it this way: "In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Christians learn to submit to trials because Jesus told us that we must carry the cross with him. Buddhists do it because the Buddha very directly said that life is suffering, but the real goal is to choose skillful and necessary suffering over what is usually just resented and projected suffering. In that the Buddha was a spiritual genius, and we Christians could learn a lot from him and his mature followers.

Thus the most common one-liner in the Bible is "Do not be afraid"; in fact, someone counted and found that it occurs 365 times!

we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

You can't grow strong without resistance.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.

Character is both developed and revealed by test and all of life is a test.

Failure is a part of everyone's journey. But it is your attitude toward failure that will determine your ultimate success.