Sunday Reflections — The path of resilience
This week, Sunday Reflections walks the path of resilience:
“Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.” ~ Jeffrey Gitomer
“Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.” ~ Janna Cachola
“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
“Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.” ~ Richard Davidson
“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times.” ~ Ping Fu
“Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.” ~ Gregory Boyle
“Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience — ensuring we’ll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.” ~ Brené Brown
“Mastering the art of resilience does much more than restore you to who you once thought you were. Rather, you emerge from the experience transformed into a truer expression of who you were really meant to be.” ~ Carol Orsborn
“Resilience is our shared genetic and psychological inheritance — we are, each and every one of us, no matter how anxious you feel you are, no matter how ridden by fear you feel you are, every single one of us is the genetic survivor of hundreds of thousands of years of survivors. Each one of us came from a line of people who made the next correct intuitive move, survived incredibly difficult things, and were able to pass their genes on. So almost to the biological level, you can relax into a trust that when the moment comes where you will be faced with the biggest challenge, you will be able to draw on a deep reservoir of shared human consciousness that will say, “Now it’s time to make the next move, and we can do this.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
