Quotes About Overcoming

we all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it . . . 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.

Make your mess your message," Momma liked to say. And I did.

Cancer was nothing more than a chapter in my life's story. It would never be my life's story.

Make your mess your message.

Do you know that some women actually refuse to be treated for fear of losing their hair? In the words of my friend India Arie: "Hey, I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." I wanted to make a statement that I wasn't ashamed to have cancer or be bald. I was absolutely stunned by the reaction to my video diary. The outpouring of support was overwhelming.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

But most important, she had broken through that invisible wall of terror that surrounded her, and lived to tell the tale.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. —Voltaire

You know, Pastor, how we always say God won't give us more than we can handle?" "Yes, Lydie." She sighed. "I wish God didn't have such a high opinion of me." *

Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses." She

But welcome to the world of being a survivor. You make it out alive, and yet you spend the rest of your life wondering woulda, coulda, shoulda.

I'm afraid my former life could sabotage the abundant future Jesus promised those of us who put our hope in Him.

No more moping around grieving! No more letting others push you around! No more playing the damned victim! Toughen up, Ava. And if the past bothers you so much, then figure it out.

Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.

When the string breaks while working, there is still the rope. When the oars wear out, there is still the tree, she recited. You feel you can't go on, but you will.

She understood now, how you turned away until you couldn't. Until the pain of knowing and doing nothing was greater than the fear of what might come next.

I agree. I have a therapist now, one with whom I'm actually honest, and we've been over the events of my life again and again—rehashing without judgment the things I've done, the things that have been done to me, and how I ultimately saved myself.

Pull yourself together, Selena, she chided. Fix this. End this. Write a better headline.

We don't always choose what happens to us. But we choose what we do with it.

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Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.

Fear dims when you learn things

Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving , the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more.