10 Adam Markel Quotes On Building Long-Term Resilience

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‘Resilience is impossible without awareness.’- Adam Markel

‘If you have your values in place and you’re asking why questions early on, then all your how questions will be coming from the right place.’- Adam Markel

If you think about quitting, just ask yourself, what for?’- Adam Markel

‘To be resiliently change proof you must be consciously aware of your emotions as well as those of your people. You may not like it or feel ready, but their emotions are your responsibility.’- Adam Merkel

‘The quest for balance is static and keeps you seeking some mythical perfect state, but harmony is dynamic and allows you to assimilate events as they come.’- Adam Merkel

‘You know uncertainty is guaranteed, so when you seek uncertain situations where failure is not only possible but likely, you build your resilience reserves for the times when uncertainty seeks you.’- Adam Markel

‘New actions are impossible without new beliefs.’- Adam Markel

Self-evaluation can be uncomfortable because sometimes you don’t want to know what you don’t know, but it’s the first way to actually use change to become resilient.’- Adam Markel

‘To pause is counterintuitive, but necessary because that’s how you reset the space where you’re making change as opposed to change making you.’- Adam Markel

‘Every time you’ve got someone else’s back, you build up more and more resilience for yourself.’- Adam Markel

‘To make friends with change, you must learn how to identify and manage the small, often hard-to-see micro pivots that occur every day.’- Adam Markel

‘If you think about quitting, just ask yourself, what for?’– Adam Markel

To Unlock Your Day, These Eleven Quotes Are Enough

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‘Change begins with individuals, and it begins with imagination. It begins with a different story which succeeds in capturing the imagination more effectively than the now-crumbling old story.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Whatever journey we imagine ourselves to be on, myth and fairy tales can inform our sense of what is possible, and enable us not just to cope with life’s challenges, but to live more intensely, and more richly, in the world.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Don’t maim yourself trying to fit into the glass slipper which was made for someone else.’- Sharon Blackie

‘There is something in us which is always seeking new frontier, which requires an enigma that can’t be easily penetrated.’- Sharon Blackie

‘In a state of awe we feel humbled. In a state of wonder we feel possible.’- Sharon Blackie

You can learn to belong anywhere … if you choose. It’s an act of creation, and like all acts of creation, it’s also an act of love, and an enormous leap of faith.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Above all, open the windows wide: break down the barriers, and let the inside out, and the outside in.’- Sharon Blackie

Always look for the small beauties beneath surface ugliness- the crows holding a colloquium in the middle of a busy, fume-filled traffic island.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Beauty is a body bowed from the weight of a life fully lived. Beauty is hair bleached in the light of a life fully loved. Beauty is the angular, bony edges of a life fully risked.’- Sharon Blackie

Simple living is often a more radical choice … When we slow down and live more simply, we use fewer resources- both our own and the planets.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Apprenticeship requires humility: a little-valued quality in a world hell-bent on glory. All the best fairy-tale heroines knew it to be true: sometimes it’s okay to say that you’re not quite there yet.’- Sharon Blackie