Quotes about Resilience
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
- Joseph Addison
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.
- Joseph Addison
Believe your pain.' This awful bear hug is no mistake. Nothing that disturbs you is. Remember all along that there is no embrace in this world that won't finally unclasp.
- Joseph Brodsky
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
- Joseph Campbell
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all.
- Joseph Campbell
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
- Joseph Campbell
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
- Joseph Campbell
And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal--carries the cross of the redeemer--not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
- Joseph Campbell
Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.
- Joseph Campbell
The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
- AA Milne