Quotes about Resilience

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. 'How does it come, then?' As God wills.

Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.

If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.

Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.

But to be hanged—is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.

On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported.