Sara

“Virtues that are not practiced die. Resilience that is not practiced weakens. The only way to keep resilience alive—through success, through temporary comfort, and through the challenges of age—is to engage ourselves in purposeful learning at every step of life. Every master must still have a master. Every good teacher must still be a student.”
― Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Millions of people, in all walks of life and in every endeavor, create distractions and excuses for themselves by focusing on tools rather than on character. They’d rather, as Socrates warned, focus on what they have than on what they are.”
― Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.   —MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI”
― Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Arrogance is the armor worn by hollow men,”
― Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life