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Resilience Quotes
"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
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"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"
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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 is when things are at worst you will get the best."
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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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"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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"Maybe you're not breaking down.Maybe you're breaking through."
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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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"I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in."
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"I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me."
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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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"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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"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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"...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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"Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear."
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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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"...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight."
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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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"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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"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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"I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Complete poverty. You won't believe this, but nowadays when I look back, those are my happiest years."
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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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"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair."
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"You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it."
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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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"The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think."
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
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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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"When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself."
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"There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it."
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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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"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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"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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"Sometimes breaking down is the only solution for stepping up."
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"When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom."
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"No matter how heavy the challenges we face in our life, embrace optimism, perseverance, tenacity and courage. Never lose faith and hope and a generous heart who live and breathes with a timeless love."
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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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"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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"The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted."
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"No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure."
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"My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you."
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"Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present ."
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"Too bad. Game over. Insert new fucking quarter."
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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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"We don't get to choose what happens to us-but we always get to choose how we react to it."
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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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