Quotes about Resilience
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
Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
— AA Milne
But I can't stay here for a week!" "You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.
— AA Milne
You are braver then you believe, stronger then you seem, and smarter then you think.
— AA Milne
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
— AA Milne
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
— AA Milne
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.
— AA Milne