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“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
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“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
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“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
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“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
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