Quotes About Overcoming

This terrible event – whatever it was – is over and done. Cling to it and let it shape you and you are doomed to live it forever. You are granting it power over you. Set it aside, and shape your future as you wish it to be, in spite of what happened to you. Then you have seized control of it.

That is true. I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.

I've thought of ending my life, Fool. I admit it. But always, no matter the damage to it, the body tries to go on. And if it manages to, then the mind follows it. Eventually

She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

Stop defining yourself by what you can't do. Why don't you consider what you didn't lose?

But a wall that will not yield to a battering ram can still be breached by the gentle twining of ivy.

I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same.

Lost a fight?' he'd asked, still out of breath. 'The fight isn't over until you win it

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One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

She could change. She wasn't chained to her past. She could become someone who wasn't merely a product of what others had done to her. It wasn't too late.

Live with it. Many folk have to live with worse. Most of the time you're fine. You're not blind. You're not paralyzed. You've your wits, still. Stop defining yourself by what you can't do. Why don't you consider what you didn't lose?

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.

I can see that this hurts you. You should fix it. You can't make it unhappen, but you don't have to carry around what they did to you. Don't give them that power over you.

I grasped that it would take a while for the keep to grasp with all that had happened. But there was something there, a feeling almost of relief. I had seen that before in a man who had had his maimed foot removed, or the family that finally finds their drowned child's body. To finally confront the worst there is, to look at it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live, and I will go on living.

In a softer voice, I added, "And self-pitying tales of woe always bore me

To take what has happened to you and learn from it, instead of being trapped by it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.' You know who said that? The Duke. Always appreciated that man's common sense.

You can lament and carry on all you want to, but bad stuff happens to good people and there's not much any of us can do about it except choose how to respond.

We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.