Quotes about Resilience

If you think you can't do something, you probably won't. If, on the other hand, you think you can, odds are you will. The same is true with your problems. If you dwell on them, they will overwhelm you. But if you look for solutions, you will find some.

You are not what your parent, coach, teacher, grandparent, or the bully at school said you were or made you feel like.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

Though Satan makes strong men weak, God is in the business of making weak men strong. Your past isn't the most important thing. Your future is.

Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

1. Seek God. 2. Fight fair. 3. Have fun. 4. Stay pure. 5. Never give up.

But no, your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.

Paul wrote these words: "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through [Christ] who gives me strength" (Phil. 4:12—13).

Today I get to experience God's strength when I am weak. He gives me everything I need to do what he's called me to do. Rather than a busy, bad day, I'm going to have a positive, productive one.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.