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Quotes about Resilience

May turns to me with purpose, stretches intimately close as if she plans to impart a secret. "A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her OWN music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.
— Lisa Wingate
most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.
— Lisa Wingate
The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself. Discontent, if watered even the slightest bit, spreads like choke weed. It will smother the garden if you let it,
— Lisa Wingate
When I listened to the lady telling her story, I could relate to not being welcome someplace. I liked the idea that God might take that very thing that stunk the worst about your life and change it around into something good.
— Lisa Wingate
Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.
— Livy
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
I have tried, at least most of the time, to set high objectives, to accept failures and disappointments with relative equanimity, to acknowledge and try to correct my mistakes and weaknesses, and then to set different and sometimes higher goals for the future.
— Jimmy Carter
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
— Dolly Parton
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
— Lady Gaga
It is experiences of being overwhelmed, nearly destroyed, & surprisingly given life that empower us to pray & sing.
— Walter Brueggemann
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
— Norman Vincent Peale