Resilience is not the absence of distress, but the ability t... - D.W. Winnicott

"Resilience is not the absence of distress, but the ability to recover."

D.W. Winnicott Perseverance

Psychoanalyst British 1896–1971

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"Don't give up on what you believe in."

"I've been through worse."

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