Quotes About Overcoming

Because that it what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only way that can ever get you home.

It's so stupid," she added softly, "what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid." And she kept her head turned, as if I wasn't even there.

That racing of my heart, the flushing of my face I was feeling: it was what happened when you got hurt, true, but also when you got back up and went on.

Sometimes it is useful to fear something too much, for it makes the real thing quite bearable.

It does not matter how long we have been kept in cages. It does not matter how strong your gravity is. We were always meant to fly.

If we are all going to have tragedies, if none of us can escape them, then surely we have to learn from them, we have to gain something. And we have to use what we have gained. Those of us who have fought tooth and nail to overcome tragedy are, after all, nothing else, proof that such things can be survived. So we can actually help others survive their tragedies too. As long as they'll let us.

There was probably a technical term for this, but it felt as though at a cellular level something had just rolled over instead of trying again.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

I'm going to shake this off. I'm not going to be a victim. I hate the victim bit

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Scott: What's the cure? Doctor: There is none. Scott: But that isn't what I heard. The optimist in me translated the gloomy news as Scott, you will be the first person in the world to be cured of spasmodic dysphonia. And I decided that after I cured myself, somehow, someway, I would spread the word to others. I wouldn't be satisfied escaping from my prison of silence. I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison.

I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it. Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success.

grabbing failure by the throat and squeezing it until it coughs up a hairball of success.

and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." – M. Scott Peck

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Denn alle Kraft dringt vorwärts in die Weite, Zu leben und zu wirken hier und dort; Dagegen engt und hemmt von jeder Seite Der Strom der Welt und reisst uns mit sich fort: In diesem innern Sturm und äussern Streite Vernimmt der Geist ein schwer verstanden Wort: Von der Gewalt, die alle Wesen bindet, Befreit der Mensch sich, der sich überwindet.

Di?imi s?k?yorum ve kendi sefaletimle alay ediyorum; en çok da farkl? geli?mesi imkâns?z olan bu durumu kabullenmemi sal?k verecek kimselerle alay ediyorum. ?çi saman dolu bu kuklalardan beni kurtar!

?nsanlar hem kendilerine hem de ba?kalar?na durmadan güçlük ç?kar?rlar ama, " dedi, " asla y?lmamal?. Yolunun üstüne bir da? ç?kan yolcu gibi olmal?. ?üphesiz, bu da? olmasayd? yol daha rahat, daha k?sa olurdu. Ama mademki da? vard?r, onu a?mak gerek.

Anche in terraferma ci sono naufragi; è bello e meritevole riprendersene al più presto e ristabilirsi.

Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team?

There are a few things in life that occur, that you don't ask for, that are just dealt to you. These things can define you or you can define yourself through them. I elect to define myself through overcoming what has been dealt to me in my life. It took thirty-one years and two generations of tweaking to get my first perfect ending. Now I am going to work on my next one.