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Resilience Quotes
"You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance."
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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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"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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"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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"A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt."
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"A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud."
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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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"Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair."
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"Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun."
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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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"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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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
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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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"God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!"
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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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"I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers."
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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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"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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"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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"And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again."
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
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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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"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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"I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."
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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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"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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"Never despair but if you do work on in despair."
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"The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell."
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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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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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"Great souls carry great burdens."
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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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"Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly."We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference."
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"If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything."
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"Hidden away amongst Aschenbach's writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work."
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"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."
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"When you are not afraid to fail, you will always win."
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"He disposes Doom who hath suffered him."
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"Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions."
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"Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake."
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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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"How are you going to forget him if you keep talking about him? Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail... and out you go."
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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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"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"
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"A good half of the art of living is resilience."
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"A wounded dear leaps the highest."
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"She was rage and vengeance, wrath and malice, in beautifully twisted human form."
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"There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."
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