852 Quotes About Resilience

The next time the world tells you “Stop”, “Don’t”, or “You can’t do this”, the next time the world beats the living daylight out of you, hit it back with a knock just as strong and say, “No, I want to do this.

The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.

Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; lions have little in common with sheep.

You always hear all these statements like "Freedom isn't free." You hear the President talking about all these people making sacrifices. But you never really know until you carry one of them in a casket. When you feel their bodyweight. When you feel them. That's when you know. That's when you understand.

To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff of which real superheros are born.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret.

Yet it seems like the more abuse I get, the more abuse I court - baring myself more extravagantly, processing opinions that I know will draw an onslaught - because, after all, if I've already adjusted my body temperature, why not face the blizzard so that other women don't have to freeze?Paradoxical undressing, I guess.

You should trust the children; they can stand more than we can.