Quotes about Resilience

as long as you are breathing there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.

These qualities are beautifully encapsulated in the famous statement of Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

seen or unseen, in sun or clouds, broiling or frigid, it just sits, being itself. At times visited by violent storms, buffeted by snow and rain and winds of unthinkable magnitude, through it all the mountain sits.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Be patient. Don't give up. This life's not over yet. It will get better. One day you will enjoy the most perfect final exit.

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.

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.

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.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

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?