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Resilience Quotes


"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."


"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."


"A winner endures all pain."


"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."


"I can't stop obstacles from occurring, but neither can they dare to interrupt my peace of mind or stop me from moving forward."


"You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. It's in the state of possibility of the ability to be in a trap which they want to put you... so they succeed. - Better Next time think!"


"Comfort blindfolds; difficulty brings realization.Pain reveals; disappointments plant trigger of actions.Fear controls; ignorance deceives.Anger torments; silence keeps.Misunderstanding divides; love joins.Laughter starts; deception suspects.Frowning cautions; sorrow remembers.Purposefulness moves; idleness wastes.When you live in comfort, ponder.When you live in pain, take lessons.When life goes up, plant your feet and appreciate the height.When life goes down, envision the height and dare to get there with tenacity. Life is how you take and manage things. Be a manager of things or things shall be your manager."


"I don't regret the painful times, I bare my scars as if they were medals."


"No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind."


"Endurance is patience concentrated."


"Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally."


"It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out."


"It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts."


"In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."


"Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still."


"Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."


"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."


"I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control: at least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot."



"Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream."


"And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again."


"More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know."


"...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life."


"What doesn't kill us makes a good story."


"When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn."


"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."


"You can get through anything that life throws at you."


"She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone."


"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."


"If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size."


"She was fighting for something, she feltalive and capable of responding to the challenges facing her."


"Everybody has a breaking point; the fact is, you don't know where it is until you get there."


"I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time."


"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."


"The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious."


"Whilst a level playing field cannot be guaranteed, one thing that is guaranteed is your fair share of challenges. It's not a matter of IF they come, but WHEN you will encounter them."


"Oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be defeatedAgain."


"I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Complete poverty. You won't believe this, but nowadays when I look back, those are my happiest years."


"It takes grace to endure hardtimes."


"A wounded dear leaps the highest."


"One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life."


"The greater the pressure, the greater the treasure."


"I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur."


"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."


"Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us."


"People can hurt you, but you can still love. People can betray you, but you can still trust. People can put you down, but you can still rise. People can oppose you, but you can still prevail."


"Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair."


"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."


"See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself."


"If you let tragedy change you, You have already lost."
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