Quotes about Resilience

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.