Quotes about Resilience

Every time you forget that character is one of God's purposes for your life, you will become frustrated by your circumstances. You'll wonder, "Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time?" One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult!

How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

Catherine of Aragon said,"None get to God but through trouble.

But it's in that disappointment, in that confusion, in that pain—the pain that comes from things not going how I wanted them to—that I find the same thing happening, again and again. I come to the end of myself, to the end of my power, the end of my strength, the end of my understanding, only to find, in that place of powerlessness, a strength and peace that weren't there before.

Patience is Recovery of The Mind

How we respond to what happens to us—especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over—is a creative

Suffering and loss have this extraordinary capacity to alert and awaken us to the gift that life is.

Failure, we see again and again, isn't final, judgment has a point, and consequences are for correction.

Find me one person who's doing something interesting in the world who hasn't felt the hot sting of a NO. Or a door slammed in the face. Or boos. Or a rejection letter. Or a tepid reception. Or bankruptcy. Or gotten fired.

You embrace your impotence, your powerlessness, your lack of control over the outcomes—you make peace with all that you can't do, with your limits, with all the people you can't help.

When you do crash and burn, ask yourself lots of questions about whatever it is that happened: What can you learn here? How will you see things differently moving forward? Why did I do that? leads to, What have I learned? leads to, How will I do it differently in the future?

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.