Empathy for other people’s feelings requires a counter-balancing quality of toughness to not be controlled by their pain
– Al Siebert
Category Archives: Resilience
Thinking…
Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.
– Goethe
Life…
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Between…
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom
– Viktor Frankl
Always…
Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest
– Mark Twain
Failure…
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
– Og Mandino
Do not…
Do not waste your time giving explanations, people only hear what they want to hear
– Paul Cuelho
The wealth…
The wealth of options we face today has extended personal freedom to an extent that would have been inconceivable even a hundred years ago. But the inevitable consequence of equally attractive choices is uncertainty of purpose; uncertainty, in turn, saps resolution, and lack of resolve ends up devaluing choice.
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When…
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
– Viktor Frankl
I have…
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
– Mark Twain
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