Quotes about Resilience

When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

Don't place your dreams in the hands of those whom can destroy them.

May God give you . . . For every storm, a rainbow, For every tear, a smile, For every care, a promise, And a blessing in each trial. For every problem life sends, A faithful friend to share, For every sigh, a sweet song, And an answer for each prayer.

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask Gd to give me th courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Life is a fast, dizzing game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

Creatures like the sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.

As though everything truly had to be faced without fear, as a mere fact of life - we don't choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.

The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured.