resilience

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self.

here__ why I take comedies seriously: they present and celebrate the world in which we survive our own and others_ mistakes, follies, transgressions, and deep sins. However lightly, dimly, or bleakly, comedies revel in our survival__n the delaying of death and the staying of the curse. Comedies tell the story of ruined folk somehow avoiding ruin.

It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE

It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE

There__ no such thing as ruining your life. Life__ a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Every day since waking up in the hospital I've wanted to die, but watching that man sink below the waves, I feel something inside me rise up. A Dragon doesn't surrender. A Dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels more like someone blew on an ember and found a slight orang glow. I have to hang on to my life__owever ruined and useless. Mama's voice comes floating to me, reciting one of her favorite sayings, "There is no catastrophe except death; one cannot be poorer than a beggar." I want__eed__o do something braver and finer than dying.

I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.

Anchor Your Stories in Redemptive Themes So We Are Moved to Live Up to Them: Rather than making yourself the victim or the hero in the stories you tell, describe a daunting time of loss, crisis, or criticism or where you made a mistake or acted badly, yet you were eventually able to learn from it. Such stories show vulnerability and a desire to grow and live fully rather than in fear. Then that facet of you can be the place where others can positively and productively connect with you, hard-earned strengths firmly attached together. You can support each other in reinforcing redemptive characterizations and action.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow? __vents are not traumatic until we experience them as traumatic,_ Bonanno told me, in December. __o call something a __raumatic event_ belies that fact._ He has coined a different term: PTE, or potentially traumatic event, which he argues is more accurate.The theory is straightforward. Every frightening event, no matter how negative it might seem from the sidelines, has the potential to be traumatic or not to the person experiencing it. Take something as terrible as the surprising death of a close friend: you might be sad, but if you can find a way to construe that event as filled with meaning__erhaps it leads to greater awareness of a certain disease, say, or to closer ties with the community__hen it may not be seen as a trauma. The experience isn__ inherent in the event; it resides in the event__ psychological construal. It__ for this reason, Bonanno told me, that __tressful_ or __raumatic_ events in and of themselves don__ have much predictive power when it comes to life outcomes. __he prospective epidemiological data shows that exposure to potentially traumatic events does not predict later functioning,_ he said. __t__ only predictive if there__ a negative response._ In other words, living through adversity, be it endemic to your environment or an acute negative event, doesn__ guarantee that you__l suffer going forward. What matters is whether that adversity becomes traumatizing.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Dory said, 'Just keep swimming.' But I've learned that if you find yourself overboard, you should just bring your knees into your chest and float to conserve energy. So my resilience tip is that floating works for me. There is wisdom in knowing when to rest and to cease from striving...that is if you want to survive.

Love is the most powerful force in the universe we have the ability power to give and receive it.

And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now__y own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster