“The first step to building resilience is to take responsibility for who you are and for your life. If you’re not willing to do that, stop wasting your time reading this letter. The essence of responsibility is the acceptance of the consequences—good and bad—of your actions.”
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
“One of the reasons you are suffering right now is precisely because the purpose of your struggle is unclear. What are you working toward? What are you fighting for? Who are you going to be?”
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
“...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.”
― The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
― The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL
“Practice builds habits. Our habits are our character. When it comes to virtue, practice “makes a very great difference—or rather, all the difference.”
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
“And it’s often in those battles that we are most alive: it’s on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you’ll have to fight for it.”
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
― Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
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