“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“We each survive in our own way.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”
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“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
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“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
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