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Resilience Quotes
"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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"Rouble creates a capacity to handle it."
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"Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart."
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"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally."
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"Challenges stimulate courage."
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"The opinions of others cannot damage you."
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"She was fighting for something, she feltalive and capable of responding to the challenges facing her."
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"Everybody has a breaking point; the fact is, you don't know where it is until you get there."
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"It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."
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"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."
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"She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain."
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"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."
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"A star never loses its shine, not even in the dark."
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"No struggle, no success. The stronger the thunder, the heavier the rainfall."
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"Diamonds are formed in pressure, that is why God allows you to go through difficult times."
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"Blessed are you who endure life trails."
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"A strong ant is better than a weak lion."
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"The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat men to whom a crises which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!"
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"As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school."
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"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks."
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"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."
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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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"The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling out the manner in which the natural organism itself wants to react and which its innate wisdom has provided."
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"I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."
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"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."
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"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience."
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"Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe, it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on."
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"It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts."
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"Negative people talk and your dreams begin to wither off. But they begin to sprout in the fragrance of hope when they find a new soil! Change your environment!"
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"What doesn't kill us makes a good story."
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"If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner."
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"Setbacks are common enemies of both achievers and people whose dream cut short. The difference is that the former persist against continual setbacks while the latter quit."
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"If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size."
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"Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm."
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"Out of every tragedy, " he said, "comes new strength."
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
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"It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain."
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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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"When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind."
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"Challenges are part of life. We only need grace to endure."
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"What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed."
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"Allow yourself to make mistakes. There will always be times in your life when you fail but you can make that failure into a success by choosing to learn from it. Tomorrow is another day and another chance to succeed. Try again."
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"When you are not afraid to fail, you will always win."
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"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."
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"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."
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"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."
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"I can't stop obstacles from occurring, but neither can they dare to interrupt my peace of mind or stop me from moving forward."
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"When all is lost, but life, really nothing is lost."
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"Endurance is patience concentrated."
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