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Resilience Quotes



"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."


"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!"


"Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge?Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration."


"The sever pain and the great trials we go through teach us the real essence of great joy."


"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."


"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."


"I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later."


"Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind."


"Joy is so deeply rooted in our souls that it is not tossed about by the waves of circumstance."


"Pain frees you from complacency. Tears free you from sorrow. Weaknesses free you from pride. Adversity frees from boredom. Challenges free you from monotony."


"If you meet the darkest moment of life, strive valiantly through it with courage and never retreat, for you shall surely meet light afterwards. If you meet the muddy stream of life, swim across it with tenacity to the very end for there is a clearer stream that shall wash your dirt away afterwards. If all people reject you in the mid of the arduous race of life, dare to smile and move on for there are people who await you to embrace you in the end."


"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."


"Out of frustrations, out of desperation, out of disappointments, out of mediocrity. out of idleness,out of limited insight, out of difficulties, out of insatiability, out of poverty, out of pain and the vicissitudes of life , so many people shall come to a conclusion that nothing is worth living for; not even what is solemn and sacred but, some shall always turn the woes of life into great land marks and indelible footprints worth emulating."


"It can't last forever. Others have thought suchthings, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn'tlast forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had."


"It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had."



"When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind."


"Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive."


"Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person."


"Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!"


"I'm not thankful for being fucked over, I'm thankful for what I took from it. What I learned. What I taught myself in that particular moment. I'm grateful someone was able to take me there and let me be in that moment - not with them, but with myself. How my emotions could surrender to someone and make me feel everything I felt. It destroyed me, but I made my way through; and I look back years from, and I still love him, I do."


"It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be-even if it isn't what you expected."


"Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up."


"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."


"Worries come and worries go, They challenge us and make us Grow!"


"The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build."


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


"It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments."


"Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces."


"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."


"I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school."


"Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe, it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on."


"Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory."


"When people around you do not support your personal growth and reinvention, it doesn't mean you are on the wrong path or that you have to listen to them. Just because someone continues to judge you from where you were doesn't mean you have to stay there."


"What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control."



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


"In times of adversity we develop our senses of creativity and strength of our souls."


"I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times."


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


"If you are going through hell, why the heck are you stopping to worry?"


"A person's industrious and creative mindset can overcome great obstacles that besiege their existence. Humankind's greatest unraveling is our propensity to panic when confronting the pealing silence of nothingness."



"It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover."


"When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again."


"Losing one feather does not prevent a bird from flying."


"In storms look for rainbows, in sunshine prepare for storms."



"It's through delayed gratification that patience comes."



"If you don't like to change, you would not be able to live in a fast changing world."


"Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow."


"Someday we will forget the hardship, and the pain its cause us; we will realise, hurt is not the end. lessons appear to teach us strength, we learn happiness is an inside job and to cure our insanity we must not fear what is to come, but believe in what we've been taught."
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