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• And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'

  Mark Vonnegut

  Crazy, People, Forgiving

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.12, Delacorte Press

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• I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

  Max Cannon

  Painting, Someday

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• A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

  Evel Knievel

  Fall, Men, Refuse

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• You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Perseverance, Believe

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• Tenacity is when you follow your heart - when the whole world is screaming to get back into your head

  Sonia Choquette

  Heart, World, Tenacity

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• The difference between a winner and a loser - they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.

  Greg Plitt

  Differences, Doe, Way

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• Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are going to do with your life, get at it. All good will be attacked. All values must be defended. In all areas of the human existence, what we put into this world, we get back from it.

  Jim Rohn

  World, Life Is, Existence

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• I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

  Charles Bukowski

  Horse, Booze

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.193, City Lights Publishers

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• False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mistake, Heart, Break Through

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “Stories from Tagore”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Sacrifice, Sacrificing Everything

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• Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet

  Dwayne Johnson

  Feet, Ass, Moments

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• It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

  James G. Frazer

  Science, People, Soul

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. We've become more materialistic. For balance, I think we need to get back to idealism and patriotism, but also be realistic with our monetary goals.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

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• After walking off the field feeling nauseous knowing my wrist was broke and hearing Philly fans yelling 'You deserve it,' and, 'That's what you get,' I am motivated to get back quickly and see to it personally those people never walk down Broad Street in celebration again.

  Jayson Werth

  Yelling, Knowing, People

  "MLB: 5 things we learned in week five" by David Lengel, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

  Jaime Escalante

  Fall, Life Is, Falling Down

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• The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Climbing, Purpose

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• It’s the age-old concept of like attracts like, or the law of attraction. You get back what you put out, so you might as well think positively, focus on visualizing what you want instead of getting distracted by what you don’t want, and send the universe your good intentions so that it can send them right back.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Focus

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.89, Penguin

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• I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

  William Maxwell

  Doors, Gone

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

  William Allingham

  Men, Feelings, Energy

  William Allingham (1967). “William Allingham's diary”, Centaur Press

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• It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Fall, Matter

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• Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.

  Erik Naggum

  Long, Cost, Life Is

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• Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there.

  Rick Reilly

  Player, Nfl, Scotch

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• Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Letting Go, Recovery, Thinking

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• OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

  Janet Suzman

  Forever, House, Looks

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• Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

  Hillary Clinton

  What Matters, Inspiring Business, Resilient

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