Quotes About Overcoming

Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi)

Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon

But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.

You can't protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.' (Kiara)

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

He's stronger than this. He's always been stronger… (Vane) Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)

Look, I admit you seem like a decent person. For all I know you stop and move turtles out of the road whenever you see one to keep someone from running it over. But this turtle is tired of having its guts spattered on the pavement while other people drive right over him. I just want to scrape myself up and hide in the woods, okay? (Aiden)

Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

Hell had many interpretations. Syn knew that better than anyone. In his life, he'd managed to live through most of the common variations and discover a multitude of new ones. Why was it every time he thought he had life tamed, the treacherous beast turned around and bit him on the ass?' (Syn)

We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.

No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

WE LEARN FROM OUR PAIN

You have no idea how many times I've been barricaded inside a box in my life. I know it's for my protection. But that doesn't mean I have to like it. (Kiara)

At this point, they were mired so deep in the mud of Shit City, he might as well have his mail forwarded.' – Sundown

For better or worse, our pasts and experiences are what define us. But they don't have to rule us. In time, all hurts can be forgiven. It's only when you add to them that they can't." - Nero

Point taken there. Now, the important question, so pay attention, ye ADD degenerates. How the F do I kill them? 'Cause no offense, I was trying and they were kicking my ass all over the place. It really wasn't pretty and didn't do much for my ego either. My only reprieve is that no one I have to face on a regular basis witnessed my beating. Don't know why you wanted me here when I'm about as useful as a wart on Aremis's bum." – Sasha

No one ever gets over great pain, of any sort. It merely carves the soul into a stronger, better person.

We do not have to become or remain the victims that life sometimes makes us all.

There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking.

It's never the enemy without who brings you down. It's always the enemy within.-Nick

After all, what doesn't kill you... just really pisses you off.

He who suffers, triumphs.

That which doesn't kill you will just require many stitches. -Caillen

For there is no true failure in life, child. There is only giving up one day before we would have achieved success.