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Patience is decisive indecision.
To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul
That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.
Resilience is a systematic adaptation of the oppressed self under the arbitrary imposition of the political order. Emancipation is the liberation of the self from the oppressive imposition of the political order upon the self.
That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
The unbearable persistence of hope
How impotent my anger was, a surge with no place to land, and how familiar that was: my feelings strangled inside me, like little half-formed children, bitter and bristling.
Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
Firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often
To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.
What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who
Admirable is excellent.
Ignominy thirsts for consideration.
an agony of humiliated indecision
The arrogance to insist on her own unhappiness, her own loneliness, had always been in her, but only now did it venture to emerge; it blossomed, ran wild, smothered her. She was unredeemable and nobody should have the effrontery to redeem her ...
The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.
inspirational,motivational
Resposibility is the price of greatness.
When once passion takes part in the game, the human reason, unassisted by Grace, has about as much chance of retaining its hold on truths already gained as a snowflake has of retaining its consistency in the mouth of a blast furnace.
Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.
Revive, Rekindle, Rejoice.
Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
It's my choice now, no matter what the test says. Abnegation. Dauntless. Erudite. Divergent.
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.
Hopeful soul, indomitable spirit.
SOLVE BY RESOLVE -
Use lessons learned from failed attempts to reinforce commitment
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
[Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
Unhappy is a nice word.
Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.
Consult ... /what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.
Discontment is an insidious thing, trapping us into thinking that which is enough is longer enough, and that which is satisfying is no longer satisfying.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Unstoppable soul, determined spirit.
The classic decision is always the same, whether to retreat or go on. There comes a time when it is easier to continue upward, when the summit, in fact, is the only way out. At such a moment one must still have strength.
Who can be patient in extremes?
Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place; it is the revisited point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.
I lead a bitter life, devoid of all external joy and in which I have nothing to keep me going but a sort of permanent rage, which weeps at times from impotence, but which is constant.
Unfailingly optimistic:
Salt. Wound. Together at last.
He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
With self-assured spirit, the soul is indomitable.
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes
while no becoming an extremist ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**
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I am unshakable.
Those who are resilient can more quickly regain their equilibrium and spring back when they are thrown off kilter by the storms of life.
He that follows the advice of reason has a mind that is elevated above the reach of injury; that sits above the clouds, in a calm and quiet ether, and with a brave indifferency hears the rolling thunders grumble and burst under his feet.
In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it.
Too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can be expressed only by a sullen silence.
Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for the world and self-pity.
the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.
When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem... your only option is to act swiftly, some might even say irrationally. Removing the most dangerous elements first... and methodically attacking each subsequent challenge in a separate, but deliberate manner.
Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
Resilience, by its nature, energizes and motivates you and the people around you. Having this internal balance improves your ability to think more clearly, problem solve and make better decisions.
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
Determined soul, willing spirit.
relaxed perseverance.
Caught baffled by the perplexing slow-release of sadness for ever and ever and ever. Which
One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
Given in love. Defiled by remorse.
Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.
I'm resourceful," she called after him.
Resourceful, he thought, rinsing his hands with the ladle she'd left in the bucket. "A euphemism commonly used by successful criminals," he called out to her.
"If I were so successful," she called back, "I wouldn't be talking to you.
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.
I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.
If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.
Rational was for people who didn't have a broken heart.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight.
It is unlucky to be stubborn in the face of insurmountable odds
Perseverance is the steady pathway toward prevailing.
The ability to reframe negative situations is a key element to being resilient.
When you are Patient you can be Practical and rationale
When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.