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Resilience Quotes
"I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good."
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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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"He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat."
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"Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow."
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"People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake."
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"Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you."
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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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"No struggle, no success. The stronger the thunder, the heavier the rainfall."
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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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"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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"Never underestimate the grace of bouncing back from a fallen heart."
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"Whatever life throws at you, don't turn your back on it; face it, and turn it into a future testimony."
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"Life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know."
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"He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good."
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"People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead."
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"Endurance is patience concentrated."
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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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"It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no."
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"Everyones' worst problems weigh the same, and it's up to you how heavy that weight is and how much you let it drag you down."
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"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."
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"Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them."
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"Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom."
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"No one can make you 'better' emotionally, mentally, spiritually or physically. You have to find this for yourself. You have to taste that brutal moment when you're crying in a corner of the room, curled up on the floor and you think this is your end. You have to fight to stand up, literally. And you have to walk over to your reflection and scream, scream it all out. Then you have pick up your sword and fight and never quit. This is your life. Don't let those bastards win."
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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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"As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I've learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined."
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"If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can."
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"Don't want no more rock, Orc repeated.The bleeding stopped almost immediately."Does it hurt? Lana asked. "I mean the rock. I know the hole hurts."No. It don't hurt. Orc slammed his fist against his opposite arm, hard enough that any human arm would have been shattered. "I barely feel it. Even Drake's whip, when we was fighting, I barely felt it.Suddenly he was weeping. Tears rolled from human eyes onto cheeks of flesh and pebbles."I don't feel nothing except, He pointed a thick stone finger at the flesh of his face."Yeah, Lana said. Her irritation was gone. Her burden was smaller, maybe, than Orc's."
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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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"You're not going to always hit a home run in life. You're going to strike out! You're going to walk to the dugout of life, frustrated, while spectators chirp your name in judgment. They're afraid to even get on the field, and you know it. The fact that you get back up there, unafraid, going after that next home run, makes you the person you are."
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"Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair."
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"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."
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"Out of every tragedy, " he said, "comes new strength."
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"Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails."
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"Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important."
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"There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable?"
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"It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain."
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"Challenges are part of life. We only need grace to endure."
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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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"A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on."
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"People with a distinctly displayed fear of failure, when they encounter more complicated tasks of a problem nature, the quality of work becomes worse, while it improves in case of people with motivation for success."
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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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"High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
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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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"Consider anything, only don't cry!"
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"A winner endures all pain."
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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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"When all is lost, but life, really nothing is lost."
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"Don't quit when you encounter an obstacle. Adapt a new strategy to conquer it."
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