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Resilience Quotes
"Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness."
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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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"Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it."
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"Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun."
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"We all fall on hard times, he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. 'It's just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction."
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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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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
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"Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry."
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"Good times don't last and bad times don't stay forever."
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"Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake."
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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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"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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"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."
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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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"Tough people in your Life only make you TOUGH !"
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"I don't regret the painful times, I bare my scars as if they were medals."
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"Never despair but if you do work on in despair."
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"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."
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"Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me."
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"If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything."
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"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."
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"If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time."
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"I tell her that the best thing to do when you fall is to get up,And she is up, so she's moving in the right direction."
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"It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day."
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"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."
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"He disposes Doom who hath suffered him."
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"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."
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"In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show."
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"Hitting rock bottom is the most precious level of our lives: because then we can choose which foundation to build, direction to take, and mental programs to embrace."
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"And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again."
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"Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening."
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"A wounded dear leaps the highest."
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"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."
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"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."
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"If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure."
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"One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pain drives out a lesser one. A strained muscle disappears before toothache, toothache disappears before a crushed finger. He hoped - it was his only hope now - that the pain of cancer, the pain of dying , would drive out the pains of love. It did not seem likely."
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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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"Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do you bear it?'Finnick looks at me in disbelief. 'I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.'Something in my expression stops him.'Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself together as it does to fall apart.'Well, he must know. I take a deep breath, forcing myself back into one piece."
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"Great souls carry great burdens."
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"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."
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"He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat."
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"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
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"She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced with astonished indignation the ugly fact of feeling pain, and refused to let it matter. Suffering was a senseless accident, it was not part of life as she saw it."
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"A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand."
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"It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things."
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"Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
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"Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul."
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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