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Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Breathe in, breathe out. Without the fire, the phoenix never rises from the ashes. Let the fire scorch the skin and burn the soul, allowing yourself to absorb the pain and understand the sincerity of the pain. Breathe in, you are not the past, you are not the future; breathe out, you are simply each breath, the present moment. As you breathe in and breathe out, acknowledge all the trials you have overcome thus far, and that you can continue to overcome all else without doubt. Breathe in, breathe out.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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When you feel like you have been hit, dig deep and hit back. Rock bottom is not your end; it is your beginning.
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Christine Evangelou (Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose)
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Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma (You By You)
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Sometimes the worst circumstances make the best people.
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Johnnie Dent Jr.
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Here you are.
Still standing. Fierce with the reality of love and loss. Wearing the truth of our hearts on your tattered sleeves. And yes, this one very nearly took you out. And yes, there were days when the darkness was heavy and the climb out of that rabbit hole required you to mine your depths for strength you didn’t even know you had.
But here you are.
Broken open by hope. Cracked wide by loss. Full of longing and grief and the burn of that phoenix fire. Warrior painted with ashes. Embers from the blaze still clinging to your newborn skin, leaving you forever marked with scars of rebirth.
And just look at you. Heart broken but still beating. Arms empty but still open. Face raised to the sky and giving thanks for the light, even when it hurts your eyes.
My god, you are beautiful.
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Jeanette LeBlanc
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We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.
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Janvier Chouteu-Chando
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Reality of Life..
When you give Importance to people, they think
that you are always free. but they don't understand that you make yourself available for them everytime
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KIRTI KANGRA (The Phoenix on Ice: This is Me Being For your peace and happiness, to find yourself)
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Scorpio women, learn to embrace your intense and passionate nature. You are meant to feel more profoundly than the average person. You are the epitome of transformation, death, and rebirth. Rising from the ashes and exerting the divine energy of the Phoenix. You are powerful.
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Robin S. Baker
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It was, however, time to accept fear for what it was, an emotion that was preventing them from being who they needed to be.
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Stephen Reid Andrews (The Visions of David Palmer: Rising Phoenix)
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It is OK not to be OK..It is ok to be tired, angry & sad..Then we reflect & decide to rise like a Phoenix!
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Sally El-Akkad
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Even if it seems as though our lives have been reduced to ashes, hope persists. New and more powerful life is still possible. “What does not kill me makes me stronger,” declared Nietzsche with his customary indomitable defiance of misfortune. In other words, if you’re still standing, if you’ve been thrown into a crucible of struggle and you haven’t perished, then, if you did but know it, you’re much stronger than before, a person who knows how to survive. Now you need only make that inner strength explicit. Dominate the world. Don’t let the world dominate you.
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Michael Faust (The Quintessence: The Magical Fifth Element)
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Sometimes life's lessons may not be easily labeled; and we may not understand simply because we are too close to the situation (emotionally). Bad things and tragedy strike all around us with no obvious reasons but somewhere in this "the phoenix will rise from the ashes".
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Nehali Lalwani (Her Story)
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This is the thing with any painful circumstance
We keep trying to be the person we were before it,
Denying that painful experience,
But all this does is stunt the person we are growing into.
Hurtful events always transform us in some way.
A far stronger, compassionate being is born from every blade
That cut to our heart… this is what we gain when we accept our pain.
We regenerate with a brighter inner flame
As we seek our light through the shadows.
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Christine Evangelou (Rocks Into Roses: Life Lessons and Inspiration for Personal Growth)
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Such apparently illogical actions are almost never inspired by a single motive. They spring from an unknown number of threads, perhaps thousands of them, some forgotten, some unconscious, some conspicuously suppressed or not admitted, which when collected and spun together have formed a conclusion, however considered or unconsidered it may ultimately seem. It is like the myriad tiny wells and springs, underground streams and significant little rivulets of water emerging from far and wide, seeping out from swamps or caverns of rock crystal, surging forth from dark underground or oozing through rotting vegetation until, bursting from a cleft in the rocks, they all unite and merge imperceptibly together then, tumbling down to the valley, they achieved their ultimate purpose and are transformed into a mighty river.
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Miklós Bánffy (The Phoenix Land: The Memoirs of Count Miklos Banffy)
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You’ve shifted the emphasis just enough from fear to love that your old reality has destabilized and the new reality of your soul is starting to break through. At this point, your life may malfunction and you may have to let go of goals, possessions, people, or parts of your lifestyle. You may lose whole aspects of your identity, your motivation and direction, and your comfortable habits. It’s important not to backtrack into more fight-or-flight reactions. What’s really happening is that your soul is saying, “You are not this old, limited self anymore. It’s time to discover who you really are and what you can do.” This is the point where the phoenix lights itself on fire and mysteriously turns to gold. It’s where you come face to face with the choice of who you really want to be.
Excerpt From: Penney Peirce. “Frequency.” iBooks.
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Penney Peirce (Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration (Transformation Series))
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What if you do the banana peel slip and tumble like a comedy superstar? But hold your hats, my intrepid spirit; what if you unleash the power of those magical wings and soar like a dazzling phoenix? Embrace the slapstick mishaps, for they're just part of the comedy show leading to your grand finale! So, let's unleash your wit and fly into the unknown, where laughter and greatness await your sensational performance!
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lifeispositive.com
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Like a phoenix from the ashes, thrive. Let your purpose be a motivation that ushers you into a fruitful life.
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Gift Gugu Mona (Your Life, Your Purpose: 365 Motivational Quotes)
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Feeling like the phoenix.
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Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant (My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons:Building a Foundation for Success)
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Respect every soul on this SOIL
If you make them toil, there blood will BOIL
Prepare to witness the fury of the FRAIL
New Phoenix will emerge as you life my VEIL!!!
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Priyanka Sahi
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TheRisingHuman
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The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security. The two working together gives us means, motive, and opportunity.
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Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
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Situations like this only reinforce my deep suspicion of developers: They’re often carelessly breaking things and then disappearing, leaving Operations to clean up the mess. The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security. The two working together gives us means, motive, and opportunity.
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Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
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I have been always captivated with the business leaders’ stories of growing post setbacks “Phoenix like leaders” where their leadership was sharpened via the perseverance & resilience they demonstrated at tough times, their determination, curiosity opens the door for unlimited & sometimes untapped potential... The true essence of growth mindset!
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Sally El-Akkad
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Running amok, just like a phoenix you obtain this new life arising from the ashes of the old one.
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Maya Realm (Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light)
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When you have “failed better” enough times, you will surely succeed because you have dialectically honed you skills to the level where you are vastly superior to your competitors. Knowing how to “fail better” is one of the greatest challenges and opportunities in life. As you learn the mistakes of each failure, your knowledge, resilience and talent grow enormously. Eventually you stand transformed, ready to be an astonishing success, tested in the fire, prepared to rise up from the ashes of defeat, to follow the wondrous Phoenix to the highest peaks.
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Michael Faust (The Quintessence: The Magical Fifth Element)
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As long as there is a spark in you, you, like a Phoenix, can rise from the ashes, get your life on track, and take it to newer and higher levels.
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Kuldip K. Rai (Inspire, Perspire, and Go Higher, Volume 1: 111 Ways, Disciplines, Exercises, Short Bios, and Jokes with Lessons to Inspire and Motivate You)
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The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security. The two working together gives us means, motive, and opportunity. I’m guessing our ciso probably strong-armed a Development manager to do something, which resulted in a developer doing something else, which broke the payroll run. Information Security is always flashing their badges at people and making urgent demands, regardless of the consequences to the rest of the organization, which is why we don’t invite them to many meetings. The best way to make sure something doesn’t get done is to have them in the room. They’re always coming up with a million reasons why anything we do will create a security hole that alien space-hackers will exploit to pillage our entire organization and steal all our code, intellectual property, credit card numbers, and pictures of our loved ones.
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Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
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Situations like this only reinforce my deep suspicion of developers: They’re often carelessly breaking things and then disappearing, leaving Operations to clean up the mess. The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security. The two working together gives us means, motive, and opportunity. I’m guessing our CISO probably strong-armed a Development manager to do something, which resulted in a developer doing something else, which broke the payroll run.
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Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
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Many a Death in Life will make you a Phoenix to fight.
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Nithin Purple
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: They do not fear failure. They capitalize on the experience. Like the mystical Phoenix, they always rise from their own ashes.
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Itayi Garande (Reconditioning: Change your life in one minute)
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Yet, I, a phoenix, have died 1,000 deaths and will have risen 1,001.
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Jasmine Farrell (Rising From The Roots)
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He creates room for transformation. He is a sensible man, like a phoenix rising from ashes. His transformation is a fusion of insight and bravery.
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Gift Gugu Mona (A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams)
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He creates room for transformation. He is a sensible man, like a phoenix rising from ashes. His transformation is a fusion of insight, and bravery.
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Gift Gugu Mona (A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams)
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You fill your headphones with motivational noise
because you’re terrified of the scream
that’s been echoing from within.
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Phoenix Moon (Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes)
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This is not a book for those seeking entertainment.
It’s a gentle — yet ferocious — cry for the ones exhausted by the system, the ego, and illusion.
A sacred invitation to sit in the dark… and finally feel.
Here, you won’t find success formulas, motivational clichés, or “feed spirituality.”
You’ll find naked truth, faith in collapse, and hope reborn from ashes.
You’ll recognize yourself in pages that speak of:
*Existential fatigue and silent burnout, from those who function on the outside while decaying within;
*The system that manufactures puppets, turns souls into QR codes, and dares to call that freedom;
*Fast-food spirituality, sold in 30-second videos and “light” workshops — while true awakening hurts, dismantles, and liberates;
*God without dogmas, who doesn’t live inside paid temples, but in the silence between one breath and another;
*Soul connections that heal rather than consume — love that awakens, not imprisons;
*The ego disguised as consciousness, craving stage lights, applause, and hashtags — but terrified to face its own emptiness;
*A society that crucifies truth and glorifies illusion, trading compassion for clout;
*The beauty of simplicity, the return to what’s essential — the wind, the silence, the faith that rises when everything falls apart;
*The everyday hell, the one without horns — but full of bills, inequality, rush, and inhumanity;
*The love that wounds while pretending to be destiny, and the sacred learning of finally choosing yourself.
This book is for those who have already died inside and still keep trying.
For those who feel too much and wonder if it’s wrong to be sensitive.
For those who are tired of “going with the flow” when the flow leads straight to the abyss.
If you feel like you don’t belong in this programmed world...
If you’ve asked yourself why waking up hurts so much...
If you sense that God isn’t far away, but resting quietly inside your own chest...
Then this book is your mirror.
It will strip you of illusions and dress you in essence.
It will cut you — and then stitch you back together with faith.
It will break you open — so that you can be reborn.
Because here, between screams and prayers,
a tired soul found healing through writing.
And maybe, as you read...
yours will start remembering who it truly is.
Emotional Roller Coaster — Confessions of a Soul Reborn from the Ashes
is more than literature; it’s a mirror for every soul tired of surviving, pretending, and fitting in.
It’s not just a book — it’s a soul’s calling.
A work that is healing, exorcism, and rebirth.
A cry for those who still feel —
and a prayer for those who forgot how.
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Phoenix Moon (Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes)
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It’s easy to be under the impression that your drive to find other partners is motivated by a desire to try to be polyamorous instead of a dissatisfaction with your current relationship.
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Lola Phoenix (The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go)
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Keep your embers burning
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Melaine Harvey (The Phoenix and the Pyre)
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Angel is an archetypal anti-hero. How do Angel’s actions play into the role of anti-hero? How do Angel’s actions play against this role?
How does Bacigalupi integrate real-world research into the novel?
Compare and contrast Lucy and Maria as characters.
Some have classified the novel into a genre called climate-fiction. Do you believe the primary role of fiction should be to inform or to entertain the reader?
What are examples of Bacigalupi combining the genres of climate-fiction, thriller, and noir in the novel?
Describe Lucy’s motivations for not leaving Phoenix, even though she is in danger by staying there.
Does Toomie’s character represent a stereotype? Why or why not?
At the end of the novel, do you think Angel is going to be able to deliver on what he’s promised to Maria, Toomie, and Lucy? Why or why not?
Do you think a future like the one Bacigalupi imagines in The Water Knife is possible for us, given the current state of climate change? Why or why not?
Angel has a worldview that anticipates evil out of everyone. He assumes that people are generally evil at their core because people always prove him right. Do you agree with this worldview? Why or why not?
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SuperSummary (Study Guide: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (SuperSummary))