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Resilience Quotes
"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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"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 your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again."
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"I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill."
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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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"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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"You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it."
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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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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."
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"A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud."
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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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"Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun."
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"Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy."
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"Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you."
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"Your ability to readapt in the face of change will instill confidence, improve agility, foster psychological safety, and make you more resilient in life and in business. Your re-adaptability will serve you well to thrive in most any situation or environment."
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"Oh, how long were the days of a man.When he strode upon the broken land.He sailed as far as a man could steer.And he never wished to lose his fear.For the fear of man is a thing untold.It keeps him safe, and it proves him bold!Don't let fear make you cease to strive,for that fear it proves you remain alive!I will walk this broken road,and I will carry a heavy load!So come at me with your awful lies,I'm a man of truth and I'll meet your eyes!"
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"Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come."
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"Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways."
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"There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while."
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"A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I'd be counting every small victory tonight."
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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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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
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"Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear."
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"Sometimes breaking down is the only solution for stepping up."
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"She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were."
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"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying."
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"Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof."
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"No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure."
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"From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort."
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"Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening."
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"Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair."
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"Don't use your past history as an excuse to be miserable. Use your past as a testament to show the world just how far you have come."
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"Challenges are part of life. We only need grace to endure."
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"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
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"Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure."
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"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."
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"The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come."
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"If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything."
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"When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose."
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"Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul."
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"Embrace the pain to inherit the gain."
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"In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that."
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"In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined. In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."
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"Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake."
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"In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to."
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"Your job is obviously very pressured.""I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8."
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"A star never loses its shine, not even in the dark."
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