"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good." - Elizabeth Edwards
"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present." - Steve Goodier
"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear." - Greg Kincaid
"There comes a time in your life when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life; getting back up is living." - Jose N. Harris
"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces—my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined." - Elizabeth Edwards
"When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives." - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
"The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity." - Joshua Waitzkin
"Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good." - Brooke Shields
"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." - Mary Holloway
"Experience life in all possible ways—good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become." - Osho
"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance." - Osho
"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat." -Woodrow Wilson
"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day." - Will Durant
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment." - Bram Stoker
"Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going." - Yasmin Mogahed
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." - Helen Keller
"I spent my young adult years postponing many of the small things that I knew would make me happy... 1 was fortunate enough to realize that I would never have the time unless I made the time. And then the rest of my life began." - Dr. Chris Peterson
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Kahlil Gibran
"Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper." - Og Mandino
"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Then, repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all, ‘This too will pass.’” - Ann Landers
"Live to the point of tears." - Albert Camus
'There is no coming to consciousness without pain." - C. G. Jung
"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us." - Meister Eckhart
"Life can only be understood backwards, it has to be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard
"A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day." - Albert Schweitzer
"We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full." - Marcel Proust
"Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Everything that happens is either a blessing which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing." - Polly Berrien Berends
"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief. But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound." - Khalil Gibran
"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." - Mildred Witte Stouven
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." - Maori proverb
"Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet." - Thomas Crum
"It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds." - Black Elk
"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters." - M. Scott Peck
"Never measure the height of the mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." - Dag Hammarskjold
"The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end." - Baroness Orczy
"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller
"Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge." - Theodore Roszak
"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest." - Beatrix Potter
"All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear." - Elizabeth Goudge
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." - Herman Melville
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Fall seven times; stand up eight." - Japanese proverb
