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Each of the scars, the chipped teeth and broken claws, the mutilated tail--they weren't the markings of a victim. Oh, no. They were the trophies of a survivor. Abraxos was a warrior who'd had all the odds stacked against him and survived. Learned from it. Triumphed.
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manon-blackbeak
strength-of-character
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Sarah J. Maas |
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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strength-of-character
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Maya Angelou |
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Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
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strength-of-character
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Rudyard Kipling |
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Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.
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styron
strength-of-character
stress
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William Styron |
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"I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it's Dad?" Tyler told me. "You'll feel even worse, of course, but you'll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does," I said."
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strength-of-character
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
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I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess waiting to toss her hair down, forever waiting at the tower window. Some jungle animal so noble and fierce you had to crawl on your belly through dangerous grasses to get a glimpse.
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individuality
independence
strength
personhood
strength-of-character
individualism
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Michelle Tea |
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d2ce415
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Would you walk away from Omelas?
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courage
decision-makingsion
the-ones-we-leave-behind
strength-of-character
strength-and-courage
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Ursula K. Le Guin |