“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”
“On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.”
“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
“Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.”
“Some knowledge is too heavy…you cannot bear it…your Father will carry it until you are able.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
“No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience.”
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong… I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.”
“I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance.”
“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
