I felt like I wasn’t going to make it,” she said. “When I thought about my life in front of me, how I’m going to rise up to anything … it was so overwhelming.”

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

We're all we got in this world
When it spins, when it swirls, when it whirls, when it twirls

My brain's gone, my soul's worn, my spirit is torn
The rest of my body's still bein' operated on

I'm all right...I just got the wind knocked out of me, that's all...

I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in a positive way. [https://playersbio.com/caster-semenya-quotes/]

I trapped my breath in the bellows of my throat, and a lamp blazed up inside, showing me who I really was. I crossed the darkness holding fast to that lamp.

I tried my hardest. I don't know what else to do.

Rudolph Reed was oaken.
His wife was oaken too.
And his two good girls and his good little man
Oakened as they grew.

To subdue destruction is one of the most important affirmations of which we are capable in this world. It is the affirmation of this life, bound up with yours, and with the realm of the living: an affirmation caught up with a potential for destruction and its countervailing force.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

When it rains, you put up an umbrella. That is the secret of success in business and management.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.