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Resilience Quotes


"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!"


"In the face of every type of pain, we tend to think that life will never be the same, but guess what, it was never going to be the same anyway."


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


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


"You can crush a rose, all it will do is give off perfume."


"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."


"You can get through anything that life throws at you."


"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."


"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."


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


"Darkness is an uncomfortable place, but that is where stars are made."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"You are only greater than what you overcome."


"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 ..."


"The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all."


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


"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."


"I don't necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don't wait around for an invitation to stand back up either."


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


"If you can't forget about all the great pains you've endured, as many of us can't, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you've somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you've certainly kept growing, because of it all."


"The road to success is paved with doubters and haters."


"Even when life knocks me around, I will not lose hope. For you see, nothing is ever personal Just a chance for me to grow."


"Life has pounded me downand thrashed me around,Time and time again,But I always get right back up,Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain."


"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?"


"A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness."


"In suffering, the soul is stretch to find its full strength."


"Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine."


"Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance."


"Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward."


"Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can't easily destroy your future than your own appetite."


"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."


"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."


"He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever after. So he'd found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was no broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken."


"Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy."


"Each step is more difficult than the last, the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone.You must hurt or be hurt."



"Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions."


"Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient lines about eyes and mouth. A tiny grave in that very cemetery accounted for some of them; and some new ones had come during the recent illness, now happily over, of her little son. But Mrs. Allan's dimples were as sweet and sudden as ever, her eyes as clear and bright and true; and what her face lacked of girlish beauty was now more than atoned for in added tenderness and strength."



"Do not allow yourself to be obsessed on failures."


"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."


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


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


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


"Life is a sacred enduring journey."


"We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials , or fractured by a permanent, damming fault line."


"You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. It's in the state of possibility of the ability to be in a trap which they want to put you... so they succeed. - Better Next time think!"
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