Quotes About Overcoming

We were saying, This is hard, but not as hard as it was for you here, weighed down by the anchors of so-called reality. So go now, go, unfettered.

Physical injury is the least of the harmful accidents that this universe inflicts on its inhabitants; it is soonest mended.

We have had three appalling weeks, the kind one hardly believes while one is going through it. And afterwards, as now, it seems quite unbelievable—except for the inexplicable weariness. Written down it sounds merely funny.

humiliation of the past behind her, and try again?

Man is a creature full of the power of the mind, if only we free it from the shackles of fear. Terrified of the new, quaking at the prospect of making a mistake. What do a few mistakes matter?

Yes I was afraid sometimes, but not often. Mostly I was too busy. When you can do something about even the smallest part of it, the overwhelming sick horror goes. You stop seeing the whole thing and see only the tiny part you are dealing with, and the fact that you can do something calms you.

sometimes it's not the errors you make but how you recover from them that mark the difference between failure and success

You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise - there is no hope.

Fear was once again breaking the shell around me so that something else could spring to life.

Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?

Remember, Rose, whatever you've suffered, no matter how bad it's been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person.

and only by the coldest act of will did I avoid falling into a black pit of grief, so black that it would blind me to anything and everything.

There is only value," said Derek, "to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!

Get thee behind me, tragedy. Kneeling over her, he lifted her and impaled her gently on his sex.

But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!

They float upon the surface of the darkness in which I am drowning.

Vengarse es el objetivo de aquellos que se sienten de algún modo derrotados. Yo no estaba vencido, me dije. Y siempre es mucho mas interesante pensar en la victoria que en la venganza.

Felix?" "I don't know, Dad. I can't get his words out of my head! I've never been able to get the negative voices of my life out of my head. I've struggled all my life to find my own truth and I find myself smothered by other people's words. It's as though they're always shouting at me, bullying me, shaking their fists, and half the time I can't find what I think.

It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.

Never happens. I've spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

All coping does is waste your time and misdirect your energy. If the best you can do is cope, you're better off quitting.

The goal is to quit the tasks you're doing because you're hiding on behalf of the lizard brain and to push through the very tasks the lizard fears. Is