Emotional resilience Quotes

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed." "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles" "Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted." "I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have" "The goal is to grow so strong on the inside that nothing on the outside can affect your inner wellness without your conscious permission." "The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good." "Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination" "It will always be there—the need to connect, the need to understand, the need to deal with unbearable pain through a form of transcendence." "Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you." "You can make yourself love, not like way back but always I seem to know I am an exception" "Emotional resilience and intelligence are so critical to well-being that they rival IQ and technical expertise as must-have qualities for anyone." "The experience of confronting reality, rather than running from it, is painful but ultimately beneficial." "There are victories of the soul and spirit."