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“You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.”
― Margaret George, The Memoirs of Cleopatra

tags: bravery, inspirational, julius-caesar, loss, resilience, war

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“Appropriate boundaries create integrity.”
― Rae Shagalov

tags: boundaries, integrity

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“Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more.”
― Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

tags: learning, no-excuses, open-mind

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“Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can be no escape of reprieve. You must toil laying down the foundation stones of acceptance, stone by stone, until you have paved your way to your new life.”
― Kerry Cue, Forgotten Wisdom

tags: grief, loss, loss-of-family, loss-of-love, loss-quotes, pain, sorrow, suffering, tragedy, trauma

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“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

tags: absence, acceptance, grief, growth, life, loss

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