Quotes About Overcoming

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

What you forget, living here, is that just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

Amy Koppelman

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

Scars can mark you for greatness.

Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.

I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind

back as a mud-smashing

Espero que con el tiempo sea como él sin tener que pasar por todo lo que él ha pasado.

It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.

Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself... We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Anaïs, beware of enlargement, exaggeration and dramatization. Beware of associating the bad weather, a tactless work, a rebuttal letter, a rejection, with a total picture for despair. You have courage, but this courage is severely strained by your enlargement of the obstacles and the way you hurl yourself against them as if your life depended on it.

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.