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Resilience Quotes



"I always felt it wouldpass.I listened to the charges against meknowing some of them to be truebut certainly notimportant enoughto become the target ofviolence, envy,vengeance.I thought it would surelypass."


"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."


"We get stronger every time we rise after falling."


"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."


"Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways."


"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."



"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!"


"To be the best you must be able to handle the worst."


"If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds."


"Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles."


"You cannot bury someone with the Shereketa spirit for long. Even if they are thrown into problems, they will rise back up."


"I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust-and reach out."


"It's been a harsh fight.You've been pummeled and knocked down. Your body aches, flesh torn and bruised. Your eyes can hardly see through a stream of blood. But you are cognizant and alive; therefore, you rise from the fight.This is life. It will test your will, your strength, and endurance. It will challenge your faith and convictions. It will scar your hopes and try your beliefs. In the end, life validates those who refuse to stay down."


"Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty."


"Rise against every negative thought that rises against you."


"Consider anything, only don't cry!"


"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."


"If you want to be able to recall everything and anything in detail,then you need to be strong enough to feel all bad memories as well."


"Resist men who tell you your dreams are impossible; embrace those who, even though they do not believe in them, encourage you."


"Don't run from your weakness, you will only give it strength."


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


"The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses."


"And now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended."


"Do not be sorrow in the storm. Let the joy of Lord be your strength to smile."


"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."


"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."


"We survived life by adaptation to the changing situation."


"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."


"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."


"This life has been a landscape of painand still,flowersbloom in it."


"His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart."


"In order to attain extraordinary greatness, first you need to be drowned in the deepest fathoms of helplessness, misery and heartache."



"It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying."


"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."


"We can all be giants in moments of peace and harmony, but to stay a giant in adversity is the true test of one's mettle."


"You may not be able to change the world for the better, but the world is able to change you for the worst, don't give them the rock you stand on."



"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."


"Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate. Rather, it is something crafted hard by the hands of God."


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


"Life is full of opportunities although there are hurdles that needs to be overcome."


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


"In the moments of adversity, we engaged our minds on beautiful thoughts, our spirit on spirituality and our hands on inspiration writings. What a good trade of pain for peace of mind?"


"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."


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


"To those who struggle comes strength."


"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."



"We cannot wait for the other shoe to drop, when the road becomes unendurably bumpy. If the aura of truth starts to wane and the light of the sky begins to splinter, only resilience can settle things. ['Steaming ahead']"


"Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom."


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