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Resilience Quotes
"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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"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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"You know what's sexy? A person who's been through a life challenge, and comes out with insights, more depth, and a fiery passion to face forward, forward, forward!"
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"There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."
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"Rouble creates a capacity to handle it."
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"Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If only I can keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge."
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"Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken."
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"Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight."
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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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"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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"The moment passed - but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. " But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes."
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"A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall."
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"Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening."
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"That failure serves a purpose!"
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"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."
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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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"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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"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."
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"Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live."
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"Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks."
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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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"Challenges stimulate courage."
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"Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative."
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"The opinions of others cannot damage you."
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"She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone."
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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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"She was fighting for something, she feltalive and capable of responding to the challenges facing her."
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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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"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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"The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious."
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"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."
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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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"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."
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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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"Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul."
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"A star never loses its shine, not even in the dark."
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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 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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"Self-pity never leads to happiness. Remind yourself that the situation may not be ideal, but it's rarely the worst that could ever happen."
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"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."
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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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"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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"Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through."
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"Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death.A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, 'Screw it, I'm going out in style!"
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"Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream."
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