Resilience
The same truth, spoken across 3,000 years
The capacity to recover from difficulties — an idea every civilization has discovered independently.
2nd century, Rome
Stoicism
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Traditional
East Asian Wisdom
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
13th century, Persia
Sufism
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
20th century, South Africa
Modern African Leadership
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
5th century BC, China
Confucianism
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
1st century, Mediterranean
Christianity
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
20th century, United States
Modern American Literature
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
