"Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist."

-- Richard Davidson

#Adversity Quotes #Survival Quotes #Resilience Quotes

“Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.”
“And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.”
“And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl”
“Imagine a future where we won't be living in the past. I'd be flipping birds like a chicken breast on a spatula.”
“...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God”
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 22, 2014
“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.”
“Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives.”

Source : Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins

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