20 hard but realistic quotes that will make you stronger

January 28, 2019

Of course, life is a wonderful thing; but it does not mean it is all peaches and cream.

The richness of life is made up of moments of joy and lightheartedness, of laughter and friends, of adventurous experiences and moments of pure poetry. And it also consists of difficult and dark times, obstacles and failures, people who hurt us, and pain.

Faced with all this chaos of emotions, facts, and people, one cannot always choose what to allow oneself to be touched and overwhelmed by; but you can decide who you want to be, and how to deal with everything that will come.

For this, it is essential to arm yourself properly, with good character, ability, and an open mind, and follow some good suggestions, such as those found in these famous phrases.

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1. "The catastrophe that worries you so much is often less horrible than it was in your imagination." - Wayne W. Dyer
2. "You don’t have to do anything; that’s a choice, too. Just know there are consequences in your choices.” - Andrea Owen
3. “The hard truth is that the longer you stay stuck in a story of blaming your circumstances, the more you keep repeating that story to yourself and to others, the more you will remain in this same story.” - Andrea Owen
4. "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." - Ayn Rand
5. "Reality is what, even when you stop believing, it continues to exist and does not disappear."- Philip K. Dick

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6. "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard
7. "Regardless of how bad things are, you can always make them worse." - Randy Pausch
8. "I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one-way street, isn't it?" - Agatha Christie
9. "We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."- Immanuel Kant
10. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” - Marcel Pagnol

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11. "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree." - Jim Rohn
12. "Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security." - John Allen Paulos
13. "Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear." - Cheri Huber
14. "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Chinese proverb
15. “Every man dies, not every man really lives.” - William Ross Wallace

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16. "You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun." - Shaun Hick
17. "In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.'' - Shing Xiong
18. "You are not in the world to meet the expectations of others, but you also cannot expect the world to satisfy yours." - Fritz Perls
19. "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
20. "It's never too late to become the person you want to be."- George Eliot