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One of the characteristic flaws of our minds is to exaggerate how fragile we might be; to assume that life would be impossible far earlier than it in fact would be.

The route to greater resilience is to explore how well we would cope if so much of what we think we need were to be taken away from us.

Every life is in the end made up of a succession of moods - happy ones and sad ones, despairing ones and joyful ones.

One of the characteristic flaws of our minds is to exaggerate how fragile we might be; to assume that life would be impossible far earlier than it in fact would be.

At the very darkest points of individual and national life, we need – more than ever – to practice the art of resilience.