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Resilience is the capacity to recover

• Resilience:  The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.  Oxford Dictionary
• Resilience:  The quality of being able to return quickly to a previous good condition after problems.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Resilience:  Ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy. Dictionary.com
• Resilience:  The ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens.  Merriam Webster
• Well-being,  Healing,  Flexibility,  Strength,  Adversity,  Optimism

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Resilience is leaping back after getting knocked down

• Resilience: The ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens. Merriam Webster dictionary
• “Resilience” is derived from the Latin word “resilire.” “Re” means back, and “salire” is to leap. When we are resilient, we leap back up after getting knocked down. Kevin Hall
• I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman who got up faster than I did. I learned that people fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster. Bonnie St. John
• Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.  Steve Maraboli
• All of us get knocked down, but it’s resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure. Roger Staubach
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius
• Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb

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Resilience is about overcoming obstacles

• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness. Naomi Wolf
• In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. Albert Bandura
• Obstacles

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Resilience is not giving up

• Resiliency is being able to stand strong while others have fallen, staying calm and doing what needs to get done, never giving up.  Megan Sroufek
• Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. Buddha
• Keeping going even when things are looking dark. Alain de Botton
• If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
• Perseverance

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Resilience is overcoming the unexpected

• Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive. Jamais Cascio

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The art of life is all about resilience

• A good half of the art of living is resilience. Alain de Botton
• Life as an art

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Resilience is necessary for success

• In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. Albert Bandura
• More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. Diane Coutu
• It is relatively easy to succeed in life with low self-esteem, but very difficult to succeed without self-control, self- discipline, or emotional resilience in the face of setbacks. Jean Twenge & Keith Campbell
• 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
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We have a greater capacity for resilience than we realise

• The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance. Jodi Picoult
• 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
• Human beings have enormous resilience. Muhammad Yunus
• Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh (by A. A. Milne)
• What is important to remember is that people are resilient, and people do have the ability to build again. Christine Anderson

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Resilience is in the soul

• Defeat is in your mind… resilience is in your soul. Keri Murphy
• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. Bern Williams
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Have faith in the power of resilience

• 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
• Faith,  Trust

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Resilience comes from facing up to hard times

• Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure. Lorii Myers
• Adversity,  Face challenges head-on

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Resilience comes from optimism

• It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. Daniel Kahneman
• Optimism

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Resilience comes from faith, hope and courage

• My courage is faith–faith in the eternal resilience of me–that joy’ll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I’ve got to keep my lips shut and my chin high and my eyes wide–not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I’ve been through hell without a whine quite often–and the female hell is deadlier than the male. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Faith,  Hope,  Courage

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Resilience comes from happiness and joy

• Happy moods, no matter what the source, lead people to be more productive, more likeable, more active, more healthy, more friendly, more helpful, more resilient, and more creative. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when hard things happen. Brené Brown
• Happiness,  Joy

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Resilience comes from physical exercise

• Michael Craig Miller, M.D., summarizes what scientists have been uncovering for several decades, regular exercise ‘improves your mood, decreases anxiety, improves sleep and resilience in the face of stress and raises self- esteem.’ Shawn Phillips
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Resilience comes from learning how to relax

• People who routinely relax have improved expression of genes that calm down stress reactions, making them more resilient. Rick Hanson
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Resilience comes from compassion

• Studies have shown that self-compassion has many benefits, including reducing self-criticism, lowering stress hormones like cortisol, increasing self-soothing, self-encouragement, and other aspects of resilience and helping to heal any shortages of caring from others in your childhood. Rick Hanson
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Resilience comes from acceptance

• 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
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Resilience comes from getting your sense of identity from many areas

• The need to procrastinate as a protection against criticism and failure is particularly strong for those who feel they have to succeed at one specific goal, seeing no acceptable alternatives. Those who gain their sense of identity from many areas are more resilient when failing in any one area. Neil Fiore

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Resilience comes from enthusiasm

• Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed by the fire of enthusiasm. Norman Vincent Peale
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Resilience comes from adapting and being flexible

• The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. Japanese Proverb
• Adaptability,  Flexibility

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Let adversity make you stronger and more resilient

• Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. Steve Maraboli
• What does not kill me, makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway
• In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
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Get resilience from the great thoughts and writing of others

• We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on. Helen Hayes
• Reading

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