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The word resilience comes from the Latin verb resilire, meaning ‘to rebound, to bounce back.’ Though the word resilience is not...

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” (Moliere) “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every...

Henri Nouwen is one of my all-time favorite contemplative, deep thinkers. Here's another great one-liner!

Early resilience researchers delved deeper into the construct of resilience and began to ask more detailed questions about what...

Resilience-promoting mindsets – This is a phrase I developed when pouring through decades of research on the topic of resilience....

Resilience is a dynamic concept that has taken the psychological world by storm. I focused on resilience for my dissertation and became...

Resilience must include observable behaviors for it to be made manifest in someone’s life. If someone only thinks of resilience-oriented...

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight...

Isaiah 61:3 tells us the Jesus came to give “beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of...

When we use the phrase, “I have a lot on my plate right now,” what we are really saying is that we are busy, we have a lot to do, a lot...

"In your world, I have another name... You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia,...

Dorothy: Your majesty, if you were king, you wouldn’t be afraid of anything? Lion: Not nobody, not no how. Tin Man: Not even a...

“French philosopher Comte-Sponville (2001), arguing for the universality of courage, reminded us that while fears and the acts to defeat...

"There is an inner beauty about a woman who believes in herself, who knows she is capable of anything she puts her mind to. There is a...

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

"I choose... to live by choice, not by chance. To make changes, not excuses. To be motivated, not manipulated. To be useful, not used. To...

"The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be." (The Vibrant Mind)

"Are you feeling a bit shaken, maybe stirred, maybe fearful and doubtful and completely, utterly, wildly terrified? Good. Keep going." ...

"Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...