Emotional Resilience Quotes

"Your mind must be stronger than your feelings" "It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him" "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." "If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." "Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it" "There is nothing more precious than laughter and scorn it is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself to be light" "If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life" "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose" "It’s a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them" "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it" "When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you." "We're all vulnerable to being hurt and being humiliated." "Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else." "Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge." "The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits." "Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame." "There’s certain players that I’ve made cry. If I can make you cry by being sarcastic, then I really don’t want to play with you in the playoffs."