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When we find ourselves wallowing in self-pity, it's important to remember that there is someone out there who is worse off than ourselves. Tragedy and unhappy times hit all of us at some point or other. Hope is what gives us the courage to face those times and work through them.

Optimism can't change what happened but it can help you face what happened with increased strength. And sometimes it feels like hope is impossible and nothing that anyone says can make you feel better. But over time, it can help, if you let it.

It's not about being a Pollyana, it's about knowing that you have the strength inside of yourself to deal with what ever life throws at you. And most of us who've been around awhile know that life will always throw something at you when you least expect it.

So if you're going through a tough time right now, I hope you can find some words here below that encourage you to find strength. If you're going through a great time right now...hopefully there are some words here that will keep you going when the time comes.
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
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In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James
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Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose.
To the question of your life, you are the only answer.
To the problems in your life, you are the only solution.
Anonymous
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn Vos Savant
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart might be truly awakened and my practice of universal liberation and compassion may be truly filled.
Tibetan Prayer
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Things work out best for people who make the best of the way things work out.
John Wooden
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