Quotes about Resilience

you learn how to recover from falling by falling! It is precisely by falling off the bike many times that you eventually learn what the balance feels like. The skater pushing both right and left eventually goes where he or she wants to go. People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance, while not realizing it at all. That is why they are so hard to live with.

Going somewhere good means having to go through and with the bad, and being unable to hold ourselves above it or apart from it.

but I do believe that the only way out of deep sadness is to go with it and through it.

And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

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.