Resilience Card Set

Resilience is a set of double-sided cards by The School of Life designed to help us become more confident in the face of adversity; short prompts on one side are accompanied by illustrative photographs on the reverse.

• 3 a.m. alone in bed is perhaps not the optimal moment at which to derive a true picture of reality. Wait – always – for the perspective of dawn.
• Things don’t need to be perfect; we are creatures eminently suited to ‘good enough’.
• It sounds heartless to say: ‘you’ll get over it’. But you will.
• The brain is designed to exaggerate troubles. We suffer more in our thoughts than in reality.
• Loneliness may be more pleasant than the compromises of false community.
• We really need only one counsel in the end: This too shall pass…
• Most of what we’ve ever learned came to us in periods of suffering.
• You aside, no one is carefully keeping track of your idiocies.
• Rather than admire the new and pristine, we should make a cult of mended things.