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Resilience (21)
Aphorisms 20
Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzche
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
— Michael McGriffy
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
— Robert Schuller
The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest…
— Josh Waitzkin
All bleeding stops... eventually.
— Anonymous
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the…
— Tom Robbins
I have never met a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, did not appreciate the grind — the…
— Vince Lombardi
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
— Horace
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
— Swedish Proverb
To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.
— Art Spiegelman
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
— Molière
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
— Alex Haley
The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
— Djuna Barnes
Without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
— Nora Roberts
Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
— Nawal El-Saadawi
Improving your life is a matter of experiencing desirable failures.
— Mark Manson
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
— Sophie Kinsella