"We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live"
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"We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live"
"For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live."
"Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others."
"I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life."
"I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves ofhuman mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whosedams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart breaks! O Lord, pity the Christian who doubts, the sceptic who would believe, the convict oflife embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined bythe consoling beacons of ancient faith."
"When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through."
"Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee."
"Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered."
"Fortune and Love befriend the bold."
"When moral courage feels that it is in the right there is no personal daring of which it is incapable."
"A man of courage is also full of faith."
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
"In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right."
"The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision raising unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
"Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."
"In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure."
"Trouble like the hill ahead straightens out when you advance upon it."
"rouble creates a capacity to handle it."
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