Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life’s tragedies.
– Ian Rankin
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- The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge, – Ian Rankin
- Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be. – CS Woolley
- Don’t deny the past. Remember everything. If you’re bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene. – Joy Kogawa
- It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better past today is what matters. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels. – Laini Taylor
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- Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous. – Claude LviStrauss
- I’m glad she left me the kids. I’d be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I’m only bitter. – Steven Herrick
- Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn’t fall down. – Stefan Molyneux
- Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all. – Edward Morris
- There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids? – Pawan Mishra
- Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal. – Laura Anderson Kurk
- We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s called sin. – Billy Graham
- I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud. – Kiera C
- I don’t see why she didn’t ditch both of them. Like being single is terminal. – J Cassidy
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- The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt. – Andrew Zolli
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- When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience. – Steve Karagiannis
- Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teaches you to pick yourself up and try again. – Sarah Morgan
- A good half of the art of living is resilience. – Alain de Botton
- Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience. – Sharon Salzberg
- Change takes time self-discipline, resilience and calmness of mind. – Independent Zen
- It turns out that there are many powers of the heart–among them intuition, intention, gratitude, forgiveness, resilience, and, of course, love. – Baptist de Pape
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- The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight. – Sharon Salzberg
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- Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain. – Rohinton Mistry
- The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor – Margaret Mitchell
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