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Resilience Quotes


"A person can drop dead even while singing. But that's no reason to stop singing."


"If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner."


"No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone."


"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."


"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."



"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."


"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."


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


"The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship."


"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."


"He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat."



"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!"


"Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm."


"Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ..."


"Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow."


"Don't allow the challenges to overpower you. Choose a positive attitude and persistent endurance over defeat."


"The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!"


"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."


"People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake."


"Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all."


"... you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead."


"Stand up! Don't ever give up on this bitchy life.Feel afraid is okay, but don't avoid competition.You've done that thing even since you're a sperm.You accept this and you are the surviving winner."


"Haters will unwittingly give you the inspiration you need to conquer your great obstacle of destiny if you did not give up."


"Worrying about life doesn't make it any easier, but working tirelessly towards a better lifestyle always does."


"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."


"Life is a fairytale of courage, fear, failure, persistence and triumph."


"If you try to hide a star behind a dark veil, it will still shine through it."


"You are no greater than the adversity you can handle."


"Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark."


"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."


"Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job."


"My fear whispered to me, I am just trying to protect you.I whispered back, I know, but I'm stronger than you think."


"Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use."


"Adversity is the evil twin of reward."


"I don't believe in failure. It is just the opportunity to start again with better information."


"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."


"In the furnace of fire, gold and silver are refined."



"The Laughing Heartyour life is your lifedon't let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can't beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the more often you learn to do it,the more light there will be.your life is your life.know it while you have it.you are marvelousthe gods wait to delightin you."


"If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere."


"Throw a champion into the ocean, and he'll swim. Throw a champion into the pit, and he'll climb. Throw him off a cliff, and he'll grow wings. Throw him into a furnace, and he'll become gold."


"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."


"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."


"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."


"The utility of adversity is to draw inspiration, wisdom and strength from it."


"I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger."


"To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place."


"The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst.""


"One does not become strong lifting feathers."
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