Quotes about Resilience

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.

Do the next thing." I don't know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.

If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right to express her anger and her sorrow and her bewilderment and her rage, and generally to disintegrate. These were not the expectations of her friends and family. Nothing could have been further from her expectations of herself. Instead, she threw herself into serving others.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

When stormy winds against us break stablish and reinforce our will; O hear us for Thine own Name's sake, hold us in strength, and hold us still. Still as the faithful mountains stand, through the long, silent years of stress; so would we wait at Thy right hand in quietness and steadfastness.

I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did--most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way--through acceptance.

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.

Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.

I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.