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Resilience Quotes
"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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"I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me."
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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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"Maybe you're not breaking down.Maybe you're breaking through."
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"It is when things are at worst you will get the best."
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"You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be."
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"That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism."
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"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
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"Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter."
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"A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt."
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"I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through."
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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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"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."
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"If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?"
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"Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all'ora successiva. Non c'era abbastanza spazio nella mia mente per mettere insieme tutti quei pezzi, per trovare le parole per riassumerla nella sua interezza.Ma la parte dell'"andare avanti", per quella le parole le avevo.'Trova un modo per andare avanti' dissi. 'Non deve necessariamente essere buono, o nobile. Basta che sia un motivo.'Conoscevo il mio: c'era una fame dentro di me e c'era sempre stata. Una fame piA1 forte del dolore, piA1 forte dell'orrore. Continuava a mordere anche dopo che ogni altra cosa dentro di me si era arresa. E quando finalmente le diedi un nome, scoprii che era qualcosa di molto semplice: desiderio di vivere."
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"The only way out is through."
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"Sometime people ask me , how to deal with pain.and i reply them in one line. make it your best Friend."
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"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"
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"Adversity or time of trouble is an opportunity to either fall or stand, fail or pass, faint or be strong. The choice is yours."
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"All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted."
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"A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud."
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"It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort."
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"It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
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"The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I'm choosing to stand up taller. I'll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I'll never stay on the ground."
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"Pity is unto the bird that takes refuge and stands on the tall tree with shallow roots to boast with their sweet melodies for they shall sing a harmonious dirge the day the strong storm will arrive. But the birds that shall build their nest on the tall tree deeply rooted in the soil shall smile and sing hallelujah when they see the storm coming from afar."
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"To deal with life and her many challenges, you have to have thick skin like a rhinoceros."
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"...you have to keep things in perspective, even when you are in the middle if a personal crisis. Fear breeds fear and worry builds upon worry. You can't stop feelings of grief, remorse, guilt, anger, and fear that wash over you during difficult times, but you can recognize them as pure emotional responses, and then manage them so that they don't dictate your actions."
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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
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"Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us."
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"We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone."
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"At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever. That was the last shudder of his awakening, the last pains of birth. Immediately he moved on again and began to walk quickly and impatiently, no longer homewards, no longer to his father, no longer looking backwards."
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"There is no failure in life, there are only those who don`t know how to succeed."
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"Try not to pay attention to those who would laugh at your mistakes and failures; they never mattered in your life, and will never do."
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"Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things."
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"When a protector leaves you, it looks like the end of the world. But you gradually learn to walk by your own feet."
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"You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it."
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"What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad."
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"After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever."
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"The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on."
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"But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important."
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal."
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"He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. Here was a second right here: he endured it. What was undealable-with was the thought of all the instants all lined up and stretching ahead, glittering. And the projected future fear. ... It's too much to think about. To Abide there. But none of it's as of now real. ... He could just hunker down in the space between each heartbeat and make each heartbeat a wall and live in there. Not let his head look over. What's unendurable is what his own head could make of it all. ... But he could choose not to listen."
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"Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun."
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"But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me."
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"Accept that you will not always deal with situations with polished sophistication but trust that you have the power and exercise the will to improve how you cope."
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"If there's any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it's that I'm on my feet. Now all I've got to do is alter my direction."
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"Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane."
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