Quotes About Overcoming

You know, he say, you use to remind me of a bird. Way back when you first come to live with me. You was so skinny, Lord, he say. And the least little thing happen, you looked about to fly away.

her first published book, Once (1965).

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Here's to all the children who grow up without their fathers. The world is full of us ... and some of us have managed anyhow!

A renglón seguido, empezó a mejorar. Y es que la maldad te mata, dice Sofia.

God did not say, You will not be troubled, you will not be belabored, you will not be afflicted; but He said, You will not be overcome.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

one needn't be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.

If you read fairy-tales carefully, you'll notice they are mostly about people who aren't heroes. They don't have special powers, or gifts. Often they are despised as stupid. They are bullied, beaten up, robbed, starved. But they find they are stronger than their misfortunes.

Forever is too long to live in fear

Solo se puede conquistar los miedos afrontándolos. Si los rehúyes, te conquistan ellos a ti.»

And he realized then that he had not lost all those times in the training square because he lacked the skill, or the strength, or even a hand. He had lacked the will. And somewhere on the South Wind, somewhere in the trackless ice, somewhere in this ancient ruin, he had found it.

A man who'd lasted past his time. A man dragged back for one fight too many. But then, one is one too many.

it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

It can be pleasant to have someone weak leaning on you. It can make you feel strong. But there comes a point when they become a dead weight to carry.

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

if you can't get beyond your stresses, your problems, and your pain, you can't create a new future where those things don't exist.

Her symptoms began to ease. Within a short time, all the physical symptoms associated with her illness disappeared. Sheila had healed herself of a debilitating disease. More important, she had also freed herself from the chains of her self-imprisonment. A

And as a result, the effects of this new experience override the residue of the neural programming and emotional conditioning from the past experience. This

If I created the life I have now, including my paralysis, my depression, my weakened immune system, my ulcerations, and even my cancer, maybe I can uncreate everything with the same passion I created it with.

Start doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Basically, it comes down do this: You can live life as a cripple or a coward. What happens now is up to you.

would be a great comfort to her, and that was in fact exactly why she resisted. She had sensed if she gave in once, just once, the next time would be easy. They

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up.