Quotes About Overcoming

I closed my eyes, letting my fear wash over me. I had to bathe in it, accept it, drink it down, let it cover me like sludge, so it became nothing so extraordinary, nothing so fearsome—and I could think.

That day I learned something essential: We can only fell sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. —JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

The Way Out Is Through

strength floods in after a fall.

We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

What it really comes down to is the clearness of heart to stop defining who I am by those who have hurt me and to take up the risk to love myself, to validate my own existence, pain and all, from the center out.

If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye. —ROBERT BLY

how to feel the pain of living without denying it and without letting that pain define us. Ultimately, no matter the burden we are given—apartheid, cancer, abuse, depression, addiction—once whittled to the bone, we are faced with a never-ending choice: to become the wound or to heal.

life keeps kicking out extra points regardless of how I play it.

I wrapped the cord around my neck, leaned forward with my full body weight, and ended my life. That thought was what got me through.

I was on my way into a liquor store to buy some paraphernalia, but I was so full of toxins that I had to casually stroll over and vomit into the gutter. As I vomited, I looked down and spotted those three intact balloons full of heroin. "Yeah! Free drugs. I hit the jackpot!" I thought, and fished out the balloons and saved myself a trip downtown.

His story wasn't "I'll never read," it was "I have dyslexia, so I have to work harder to make everything happen—and I will.

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

In every man and woman's life there comes a time of ultimate challenge—a time when every resource we have is tested.

No matter how long a wall has stood, none has the power to withstand the continued force of human beings who have decided to persist until it has fallen. The human spirit truly is unconquerable.

Encontraremos un camino, o bien lo construiremos. ANÍBAL

CHAPTER XXIII POOR CANEBACK

The Triumph of the Giants

The pain is still within me, but it has been a source of regeneration for me. And this is a crucial point in my work: the problem is not that one has pain, but what you do with it.

Naš Gospodin nije rekao da ne?emo biti izloženi olujama i jadima, ili da ne?emo doživljavati nesre?e, nego je rekao: Sve to ne?e te nadja?ati!

Had she not earned freedom from turmoil? From fear and pain?

Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self