If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life. . . . Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers frames resilience as a deliberate stance rather than a lucky trait. By advising people to “expect trouble,” she rejects the fantasy that a good life is one without hardship; difficulty is presented as normal, not a personal failure. The imperative to look trouble “squarely in the eye” emphasizes clear-eyed acknowledgment over denial or panic. Her concluding declaration—“I will be bigger than you”—casts adversity as something that can be met with inner expansion: courage, patience, and perspective that outgrow the problem’s power. The quote’s significance lies in its practical moral psychology: acceptance of inevitability paired with agency in response.