9. «Resilience is the art of navigating torrents.»

Resilience involves endure and adapt to life’s most intense and overwhelming challengesmuch like navigating through turbulent waters.

10. «It is necessary to sow seeds of hope in people’s hearts, otherwise it is impossible to reap happiness.»

Hope gives us a reason to look to the future, especially in difficult times.

11. «Resilience is the ability to face life’s adversities, transform pain into driving force to become stronger and emerge stronger from them.»

Resilience involves not only enduring difficult experiences, but also use them as opportunities to grow.

12. «Resilience is ongoing throughout life, but the first years are very important.»

Experiences in the first years of life (relationships, emotional support and a safe environment) They are essential to develop emotional strength and the skills that will enable resilience later.

13. «The perspective of resilience promotes a realistic hope that does not deny the reality of the problems; it is explained from a reading of man and his relational, social, cultural and educational character.»

Resilience does not ignore or minimize difficultiesbut rather fosters hope by accepting the reality of problems and recognizing the role of relationships, culture, society and education in helping to overcome them.

14. «The love of a couple can bring back to life those who are marked by deep wounds due to old traumatic experiences.»

Love provides a safe and trusting environment which can soothe old wounds and encourage emotional healing.

15. «If suffering restricts creativity, that does not mean that one must be forced to suffer in order to become creative.»

Cyrulnik here challenges the idea that hardship or suffering fosters creativity.

16. «Resilience is a process that is always possible if the person developing finds an object that is meaningful to them.»

Resilience does not depend on the absence of difficulties, but on the presence of something that can give purpose or meaning to life.

17. «No one claims that resilience is a recipe for happiness. It is a strategy for fighting unhappiness that allows you to extract pleasure from life, despite the whispers of ghosts from the depths of your memory.»

Resilience is not a guarantee of happiness, but rather a way of face difficulties and adversity.

18. «An adversity is a wound that is inscribed in our history, but it is not a destiny.»

Although we may experience suffering, trauma, or hardship, this does not define who we are.

19. «In healthy memory, the representation of oneself tells the way of living that allows us to be happy.»

When we have a more balanced and healthy view of our past, we are better able to form a positive self-image.

20. «What determines the quality of their resilience is the quality of the bond they have been able to forge before the trauma and immediately after.»

Relationships play a key role in people’s ability to cope and recover from difficult events.