When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for u… - Sheryl Sandberg

I thought resilience was the capacity to endure pain, so I asked Adam how I could figure out how much I had. He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity — and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone. Since

When we are no longer able to change a situation,” psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl observed, “we are challenged to change ourselves.

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.