Resilience Quotes - 34 quotes

 “being able to recover quickly from failure is more important than having failures less often“

- John Allspaw

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 You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

- Maya Angelou

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 Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.

- Maya Angelou

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 You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.

- Maya Angelou

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 I speak of hope in Christ not as wishful thinking. Instead, I speak of hope as an expectation that will be realized. Such hope is essential to overcoming adversity, fostering spiritual resilience and strength, and coming to know that we are loved by our Eternal Father and that we are His children, who belong to His family. When we have hope in Christ, we come to know that as we need to make and keep sacred covenants, our fondest desires and dreams can be fulfilled through Him.

- M. Russell Ballard

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 Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

- Brené Brown

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 I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.

- Daniel Hillel

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 Every day we have the opportunity to create, and re-create our lives. This is the power we yield. No dark fate determines our future.

- Desmond Tutu

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 ""Joy subsumes happiness. From The Book of Joy “Joy subsumes happiness. Joy is a far greater thing. Think of a mother who is giving birth. Almost all of us want to escape pain. And others know that they are going to have pain, the great pain of giving birth. But they accept it. And even after the most painful labor, once the baby is out, you can’t measure the mother’s joy. It is one of those incredible things that joy can come so quickly from suffering.”""

- Desmond Tutu

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 she dreams with a gravitational pull so powerful that even the stars can feel her. her voice is celestial music-the kind that sounds like how velvet feels and how marigolds smell-soft, classic, rich. her presence is like sunbathing. I am a flower in her light. she knows how to walk with the wind and she does it effortlessly. she kisses in the rain and she loves like thunder and her laugh floods into the room like a steady summer storm. she is woman. she is an element of her own.

- Emily Kurc

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 Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

- Henri Nouwen

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 No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

- Jack Kornfield

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 Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

- Jack Kornfield

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 We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.

- Jack Kornfield

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 Being numb is to be invisible Asleep to yourself and any kind of promise Choosing to feel nothing is sometimes the best you can do Being afraid is better than being numb But being afraid slowly drains the life right out of you until all that is left is something small Nobody can see in It’s still better than the nothingness Feeling angry is bigger and better than being afraid But being angry is exhausting and scares the chickens But at least you feel you are alive at least something is happening at least it’s a start Even if it spills out at least people know you’re there And somewhere after numb somewhere between the fear and the dread through the fury and the madness A real life begins Courage to move out of the numbness ignoring the sirens, the alarm bells the signposts warning of danger Courage to be scared Courage to grow big enough to hold the rage Courage to forgive Courage to take your life back from the past Claiming This is now This is mine

- Jane O'Shea

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 Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

- Jennifer Lee

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 When people say "Let it go," what they really mean is "Get over it," and that's not a helpful thing to say. It's not a matter of letting go - you would if you could. Instead of "Let it go," we should probably say "Let it be"; this recognizes that the mind won't let go and the problem may not go away, and it allows you to form a healthier relationship with what's bothering you.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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 Compassion is the alleviation of suffering Fierce Self Compassion- Protecting, Providing, Motivating Nurturing Self Compassion- Accepting, Loving Strong Back, Soft Front

- Kirsten Neff

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 Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

- Maya Angelou

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 My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

- Michael Jordan

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 The twelfth century Buddhist lojong texts about mind training state that, “Joy is our essential nature, something everyone can realize. We could say that our desire for happiness is in a way, an attempt to rediscover our original state of mind.” According to The Dalai Lama, “The suffering from a natural disaster we cannot control, but the suffering from our daily disasters we can. We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends on the attitudes, the perspectives, and the reactions we bring to situations and to our relationships with other people.” He also reminds us of the adage, “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky that shows only 50% of our happiness is determine by set factors like our genes or temperament. The other half is determined by our attitudes and actions, which we can control.According to Lyubomirsky, the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on our happiness are: 1. Our ability to reframe the situation more positively, 2. Our ability to experience gratitude, and 3. Our choice to be kind and generous.

- Mission Joy

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 If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.

- Pema Chodron

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 We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

- Pema Chodron

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 As Pema Chodron writes in http://amzn.to/2sg65eR: Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world. We can do this even at the most difficult moments. Everything we see, hear, taste, and smell has the power to strengthen and uplift us. From this point of view, it becomes possible to open your heart to what can feel, at first, like a vulnerability. To let your natural capacity for empathy connect you to both the pain and joy of others, and to trust that this capacity is a blessing, not a liability.

- Pema Chodron

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 Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors, people who have a certain hunger to know what is true, feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we are holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment s the perfect teacher, and lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are. Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We are use to all kinds of escaping - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. There are so many ways that have been dreamed up to entertain us away from the moment.

- Pema Chodron

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 There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragilityout of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being. There is a cry deeper than all sound whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole, while learning to sing.

- Rashani Réa

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 This being human is a guest house.

- Rumi

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 We all move forward when we recognize how resilient and striking the women around us are.

- Rupi Kaur

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 All text, no title, no author. Hey Thoughts. Thanks for the ideas, but I totally got this.

- Sarina Natkin

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 There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

- Tara Brach

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 One of the stories that most struck me about the power of the recognizing and allowing, the ground level of RAIN, was a man that I met with at a retreat years ago, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He was a psychologist, and he was an experienced meditator. So it's quite interesting to hear him speak about what he was going through. And he described an experience in the early onset, where he was giving a talk that included about meditation to about 100 people. And he was just about to begin, when he went completely blank. He had no idea, not only what he was supposed to say, but where he was, why all these expectant eyes were on him. So here's what he did. Actually, he didn't do anything. He paused, and then he just put his palms together, and he started naming what was coming up in him. So he would say, ""Confused,"" and then he'd just bow. ""Embarrassed,"" bow. ""Afraid,"" bow. ""Heart pounding,"" bow. He took a breath and he'd go, ""Breathing, breathing,"" bow. ""Relaxing."" He started settling. He looked around and he said, ""I'm sorry."" And as you might imagine, there a lot of people with tears in their eyes. One of the men in the group said, ""No one has ever given us the teachings in this way."" And what had he done? Instead of kind of tumbling into what might have been a habitual reactivity to a difficult situation, he paused, which is the beginning of all healing practices-- to stop. And then he began to recognize, just name what was happening. And his way of allowing was that simple bow that Jack has described in a number of examples and can-- it's the energy of a bow. It's respecting the actuality of what's right here, that life is like this right now. This is how it is. So sometimes when we recognize and allow what's going on, when we name it and let it be there, it loses its power. The identification or energy sort of dissolves, and we're and we've arrived back again. We've remembered presence. But often, if Mara has got a lot of juice-- if Mara is revved-- recognizing and allowing begins to wake up a healing attention, but there's still some energy there. And sometimes, when you name what's there and you allow it-- and I often use the word yes. So when you kind of say, ""Yes, this is the life,"" let it be here, it actually gives it permission to get stronger.

- Tara Brach

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 It is okay to not have the answer. One of the bravest things you can do is boldly embrace the unknown, accept your fear, and still continue to move forward. A clear mission does not always have a clear path.

- Yung Pueblo

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 Her rebirth was stunning – she lifted herself up from the depths of despair, grasped her dreams, embedded them in her heart, and walked forward into a future that only her will and vision could control.

- Yung Pueblo

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 Walked Through Fire You have walked through fire survived floods and triumphed over demons remember this the next time you doubt your own power

- Yung Pueblo

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