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Resilience Quotes


"Even when life knocks me around, I will not lose hope. For you see, nothing is ever personal Just a chance for me to grow."


"The hotter the furnace the finer the gold."


"I can sit here and say I've survived heart break and all those nights I thought I couldn't bare to live without you, yeah I just want to thank them, because I did & now I couldn't imagine a life with you."


"A star never loses its shine, not even in the dark."


"Remembering where and why you fell and learning the lessons well is a good starting point to start all over again with a better insight and a renewed fortitude and wit to dare again for victory!"


"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."


"I'm a master of speaking silently-all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."


"He disposes Doom who hath suffered him."


"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."


"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."


"Great souls carry great burdens."


"When all is lost, but life, really nothing is lost."


"Option B' draws not just on my story but on the research and stories of many people overcoming all kinds of adversity. No one should have to go through challenges and trauma alone."


"Rouble creates a capacity to handle it."


"People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too."


"Don't quit when you encounter an obstacle. Adapt a new strategy to conquer it."


"You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving."


"Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong."


"Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light."


"You are only greater than what you overcome."


"Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world."


"Don't want no more rock, Orc repeated.The bleeding stopped almost immediately."Does it hurt? Lana asked. "I mean the rock. I know the hole hurts."No. It don't hurt. Orc slammed his fist against his opposite arm, hard enough that any human arm would have been shattered. "I barely feel it. Even Drake's whip, when we was fighting, I barely felt it.Suddenly he was weeping. Tears rolled from human eyes onto cheeks of flesh and pebbles."I don't feel nothing except, He pointed a thick stone finger at the flesh of his face."Yeah, Lana said. Her irritation was gone. Her burden was smaller, maybe, than Orc's."


"We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."


"You're not going to always hit a home run in life. You're going to strike out! You're going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. They're afraid to even get on the field, and you know it. The fact that you get back up there, unafraid, going after that next home run, makes you the person you are."


"In the long run one gets used to anything."


"At times the challenges will displace us or some of the things that are important to us. If we strengthen our belief system from within " those challenges must inevitably begin to float away and not take root or force us to sink."


"Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you."


"Out of every tragedy, " he said, "comes new strength."


"There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."


"Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important."


"It can't last forever. Others have thought suchthings, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn'tlast forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had."


"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."


"Inflate yourself with a genuine passion always. This makes it possible for you to bounce back when you fall. The football is loaded with air and no sooner does it hit the floor than it bounces back again!"


"We all go through some tough times, but unfortunately, some of us let theirs define the rest of their lives instead of growing from them."


"Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!"


"In trying moments, you must keep trying... In grieving times, don't think of giving up! Employ your passion to work; something great to enjoy is approaching!"


"When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again."


"Comport yourself with grace under pressure."


"Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can't easily destroy your future than your own appetite."


"A strong ant is better than a weak lion."


"The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one."


"Sometimes you try to fly and you fall. Remember your falls are not fatal, they're just a little painful. Endure the pain, clean the blood stain, you'll surely gain! Get up and fly again!"


"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."


"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks."


"Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming."


"Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!"


"Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winterthat only by wintering through it will your heart survive."


"Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return."


"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."
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