resilience

re·sil·ience [ri zíllyənss]
or re·sil·ien·cy [ri zíllyənssee]
n
1. speedy recovery from problems: the ability to recover quickly from setbacks
2. elasticity: the ability of matter to spring back quickly into shape after being bent, stretched, or deformed

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What I want is resilience. Not a god, a material comfort or security, but the strength to survive the harshest weather conditions, a strength that thrives upon adversity and turns it into resolution. The amazing resilience of the human soul is shown in our ability to transcend years of wars, political campaigns, philosophy and thought reforms, poverty, famine, economic strife, diseases and still manage to live on to the monotony of the comfort of today.

We all have the freedom of choice. We are all Gods of our own lives.

We all have the ability to create and destroy, to dictate the success and failures of our lives. Even if life is unfair we can make it fair for ourselves. Even if justice, God, and every beautiful philosophy and idea fails us, we can still decide to live within the confines of our own mind, and turn our lives into where nobody can touch the world we build up.

You can do anything you want. The God and the Devil- both of them are you. The paradox is we are both our greatest friend and worst enemy.

We are both the hand that writes and the hand that seals our own fate.