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When there's rioting in the streets, use the sidewalk.
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The Covert Comic
The Covert Comic
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Real Men Don't Get Published"
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Viewed on April 19, 2013
Contribution #7519
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
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When nothing in life seems to be going right....Go Left!
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Unknown
Contribution #7401
Once you're caught in the mousetrap, why not eat the cheese?
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Hotel Amerika
Page 42
Hotel Amerika
Volume: 10
http://www.hotelamerika.net
Contribution #7334
Counselors are people who can utilize the traits of wisdom gained from their critical life experiences to help others. They are insightful, have the courage to recognize the suffering of the heart, and can relate to others through their own woundedness. They become a source of life and hope for others.
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I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
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gratefulness.org
Georgia O'Keefe
Contribution #7023
Failure is a pillar to success.
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Contribution #6964
When all else fails you ... be glad you can still draw breath into your being!
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Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.
Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.
There are so many who have power and are so afraid to lose it. Being afraid of losing their power means they have already lost the will to properly wield, transform and transcend it on every level.
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Sometimes Grace comes in the form of a punch in the face.
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Personal experience.
Contribution #6595
What we give our attention to – stays with us What we let go of – will let go of us
If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
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The Mysterious Lands
Contribution #6115
The horror of heartbreak may never be healed, but the only hope of a life not lost in it is selflessness so it may not consume you, yet never leaving.
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My heart
Contribution #6016
If you learn something from a defeat it isn`t a loss.
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My own words
Contribution #5965
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found." Pema Chodron
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.
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The Once and Future King
Contribution #4792
Nothing can sabotage winning, except for fear of losing. Success usually lies just beyond failure.
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Successful people are prepared to fail more, and they are more persistent than others.
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You can get sympathy or you can get better but you can’t get both. You can be in your comfort zone or you can have growth, but you can’t have both. You can be interested or you can be sold-out-committed, but you can’t entertain both. You can have excuses or have results, but you can’t do both. Choose the path that develops your visceral fortitude.
Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them
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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you…yet, someone survived…You can do anything you choose to do.
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The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure - something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.
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The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn.
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Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
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The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
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People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
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I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
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The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief.
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The Art of Condolence: What to Write, Say and Do at a Time of Loss
by Leonard M. Zunin, MD and Hilary Stanton Zunin
Published by HarperCollins
, New York
, 1992
http://Amazon
Contribution #4621
Yes…There does exist in the workplace: the corporate ladder to climb, the glass ceiling to break, the small pond from which we must leap, and the box to think outside of in an effort to be successful. But once we realize these are conditions placed upon the mind--a mindset that we personally don’t have to adopt--we are free to pursue our success without encumbrance or hesitation!
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.
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Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he / she is involved in tragic events.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I haven't failed. I've identified 10,000 ways this doesn’t work.
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A Sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.
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I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed.
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When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.
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The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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to win without risk is to triumph without glory
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Loss makes artists of us all as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives.
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There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
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The Reenchantment of Everyday Life
Published in U.S.A.
Contribution #3494
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
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Contribution #3442
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.
That which does not destroy, strengthens.
You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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Courage is resistence to fear -mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme.
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The Book of Chuang Tzu
page143
Version or Translation Translated by Martin Palmer with Elizabeth Breuilly
Published by Penguin Arkana Books
Published in New York
Published in 1996
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Contribution #671
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
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Albert Bandura
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #466
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
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Bern William
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #464
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not... nothing is more common than unsuccessful people will talent.
Genius will not... unrewarded genius is almost legendary.
Education will not.... the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Calvin Coolidge, American president
Viewed on March 31, 2008
Contribution #115
What does resilience look like in a person?
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