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Resilience is the ability to work with adversity in such a way that one comes through it unharmed or even better for the experience. Resilience means facing life’s difficulties with courage and patience – refusing to give up. It is the quality of character that allows a person or group of people rebound from misfortune, hardships and traumas.


Resilience is rooted in a tenacity of spirit—a determination to embrace all that makes life worth living even in the face of overwhelming odds. When we have a clear sense of identity and purpose, we are more resilient, because we can hold fast to our vision of a better future.


Much of our resilience comes from community—from the relationships that allow us to lean on each other for support when we need it.

Resilience

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Courage - Discernment - Growth - Idealism - Resilience
There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

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The Reenchantment of Everyday Life
Published in U.S.A.
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Contribution #3493


Courage - Discernment - Growth - Idealism - Resilience
There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

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The Reenchantment of Everyday Life
Published in U.S.A.
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Contribution #3494


Assertiveness - Determination - Action - Growth - Persistence - Resilience
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

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Contribution #3442


Confidence - Determination - Growth - Resilience
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

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Christopher Reeve
"O's Quote of the Day"
http://www.oprah.com/magazine/omagazine
Viewed on February 3, 2009
Contribution #2995


Resilience
That which does not destroy, strengthens.

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Virtues Reflection Cards
http://www.virtuesproject.com
Contribution #2225


Resilience
You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

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Determination - Persistence - Resilience
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

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Muhammad Ali
http://www.ealasaid.com/quotes/a-c.html
Viewed on May 12, 2008
Contribution #1270


Resilience - Wisdom - Harmony - Virtue
There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. 
Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.
Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme.

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Source type: Sacred Text
The Book of Chuang Tzu
page143
Version or Translation Translated by Martin Palmer with Elizabeth Breuilly
Published by Penguin Arkana Books
Published in New York
Published in 1996
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Contribution #671


Resilience
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.

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Albert Bandura
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #466


Resilience
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

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Bern William
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #464