Quotes About Resilience

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A smart man understood that victory was not inevitable. An even smarter man knew that defeat was never really total if you figured out how to handle the aftermath with skill and just the right spin. And the smartest men of all, even when they lost, they actually won.

David Baldacci

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Tyler. The boy immediately broke out into

But don't sit here and think that you're cured, because that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. People who want to get better, they work at it. They don't lie to themselves and everyone else. They don't sit on their ass and sink deeper into a pathetic existence while denying anything's wrong at all. They have balls not bullshit. And I'm pretty much fed up with yours.

Knowing your pain tolerance is important. Pills and needles mask it. Not good. I could be slipping and I'd never know it.

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I let circumstances beyond my control define me. That's not good. That's worse than lying to yourself. It's like you're lying to your soul.

Shots around the knee region, however, reduced the toughest men to screaming babies. Rogers

David Baldacci

You take life as it comes at you, and it's rarely perfect.

David Baldacci

She backed up against a brick wall. Tears sliding down her face, she moaned, "Please, please don't hurt me. I swear I won't tell nobody what you done. I swear to God. Please." Rogers bent down and picked

and out of his life. As he

It was like Julie had said. You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

Life is not fair any way you cut it, Michelle. You know that and I know that. We've lived that stuff too often to recognize it any other way.

David Baldacci

I remember thinking about her that it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

that neither of them had seen before. "If people

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know, it's harder to get back in shape than it is to stay in shape.

He could compartmentalize at an astonishing level. It came from not giving a shit. And

You think I haven't tried to quit?