Quotes About Overcoming

Conquer such whims, and endeavor to strengthen your mind. No existence is more contemptible than that, which is embittered by fear.

You cannot step over a mountain," she told me, "but if you step over pebble by pebble, you'll look back and the mountain will be behind you.

THERE IS NO BEATING THESE PEOPLE, though they seem beatable.

People always said you'd better be careful. Though how, when things are out of your hands, when things were never really in your hands, when things are stacked against you, does a person - the little person down here on the earth - be that?

there were sunsets every day, that we weren't meant to be coffined and buried whilst all the time still living, that nothing of the dark was so enormous that never could we surmount it, that always there were new chapters, that we must let go the old, open ourselves to symbolism, to the most unexpected of interpretations, that we must too, uncover what we've kept hidden, what we think we might have lost.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Oh que ça m'énerve, ça! Bien sûr, c'est plus facile de se dire qu'on est nul et ne rien faire! Bien sûr! C'est une fatalité! C'est si simple de penser qu'on est maudit! Alors quoi? Quels sont tes projects maintenant?

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When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

Life goes on. The rules were this: you might sit for a time on the sidelines feeling overwhelmed and paralysed by it all. But sooner or later you picked yourself up and got on with it, or you were left behind.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

You can't fall if you're already on the floor when you faint. Words to live by.

Stupid body. Stupider brain for not posting a sign that said DREAM THREAT—PLEASE IGNORE.

A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

She says everyone around her drank or took drugs. She fell into the same pattern and gradually succumbed to despair.

She wasn't ever going to let anyone make her feel like that again. She would not allow bitterness and regret to poison her life any longer.

pity parties never result in authentic benefit or blessing; they just enlarge, deepen, and intensify the wound by repeatedly exposing it. At the very least, these kinds of discussions with others will keep you focused on your hurts instead of focused on your Healer.

Did your big break turn into a big bust? Sometimes a great escape from a wounded past can turn into something worse as we discover the wounds were not just from without, but they were within. So regardless of where we go, what we do, who we are with, we carry those wounds with us.

The great theme we all share is that of becoming ourselves, of overcoming our father and mother, of assuming our identities somehow.

Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. My conclusion was that it's clearly worth looking into the way you deal with bad luck.

Some of us have spent our whole lives committing suicide. And some of us survived.

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

It's so weird, like, it's not like Gamergate is the only bad thing to happen to me. I've been homeless before, I've had to come through other stuff. A profoundly abusive childhood, but at least that stuff feels like I got to move on from it, that stuff is in the past.