Quotes About Overcoming

I swallowed the fear. It's always there– fear– and if you don't stay on top of it, you'll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, "Yeah, you're bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.

The bruises are vivid, but they will fade.

She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so. But what was one more beating? A flogging, even? I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could no longer harm Ruth, and she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. This was a new notion to me and a curious one.

I know how bad you feel. Trapped, she says. It gets better, I promise. So much better.

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.

Well... It might be a little broken.' 'A little broken is still broken,' I pointed out. 'But fixable.

I have survived. I am here.

Keep breathing. It took a few minutes but I won. The grey pulled away from my eyes in ribbons and whispered that it would be back soon.

It wasn't my fault. ANd I'm not going to let it kill me. I can grow.

I am on top of the highest mountain. The icy ground is shaking, an earthquake, the world beneath me opening up with fire, steel arms ready to pull me down. I have to move. I can't stay here anymore. I throw myself down the mountain and open my mouth.

I shook from the effort of holding myself still, clutching the crumpled paper. Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. She said it was a hard thing to do, but it made us worthy. I breathed deep to steady myself.

scars may look stronger than unwounded skin, but they're not once broken, we're hurt again, or worse

Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it

When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?