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Resilience Quotes
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
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"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."
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"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
79
"Unity breeds strength, and discipline forges resilience - the recipe for overcoming any challenge."
79
"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."
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"Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life."
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"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you're not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you're satisfied and make you happy, you're not getting stronger."
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"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done."
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"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."
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"Enough pain will keep you humble. Enough grief will keep you compassionate. Enough trouble will keep you strong. Enough hardship will keep you grateful."
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"Trust yourself. You've survived a lot, and you'll survive whatever is coming."
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"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
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"Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in."
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"A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure."
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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
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"You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!"
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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
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"The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow."
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"The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up."
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"It doesn't matter what happens to you. What matters is, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to complain and shrink or are you going to step into your greatness?"
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
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"The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is."
31
"He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape."
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"It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way."
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"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
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"I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house "in case anything turned up " which was his favorite expression."
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"So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important-self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes."
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"You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you."
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"I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down."
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"Everyone suffers personal setbacks. If you're experiencing difficulty in your career or personal life, keep it in perspective - by persevering through your difficulties, you're building a stronger personality in you. Never give up!."
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"It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born."
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"When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you."
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"Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul."
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"Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them."
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"You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks."
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"Overcome obstacles as they come rather than worry about when they will arrive."
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"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
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"The only way out is through."
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"If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer."
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"Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That's only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds " as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history."
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"...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight."
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"There was something indomitable about Maria " like Britannia. He'd heard that she kept her head during a Chilean earthquake the year before when men of greater age and experience had panicked. Afterwards she was discovered calmly taking notes, recording the way the land hand risen, for publication, she said."
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"If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great."
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"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."
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"Everyone claims to want the truth. If you really want it, I'd suggest investing seriously in humor and this mysterious skill of transforming bad news into good. Otherwise, you'll only get more frustrated."
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"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."
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