Quotes About Overcoming

P.S. If you have addictions, not only do they ruin your sixth sense, they ruin everything else as well. Keep in mind that as you reach for higher ground, it's necessary to leave the swamp. Before you can go one step further, you must be honest and admit you need help. Then get it. It's time.)

had been dragged under by a riptide of negative self-talk: I am not enough. I am rejected, no matter how hard I try and no matter what good I do. I am alone and not wanted. All fears that ending my marriage had stirred up and brought to the surface.

There were two big lessons to be learned in all of this: first, the pain of the past is unfortunately not so easily stripped away, and second, not to allow anyone ever again to take a literal or figurative whack at me.

Transcending the limiting ego version of who you are and connecting with your empowered spirit when times are difficult takes imagination, intention, and help from others. It's part of our soul's work to learn to live an empowered, authentic life and not merely be a prerecorded tape replaying the past mistakes of others.

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

If you listened to every pang, you wouldn't get anywhere in life

For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.

Never bring them down to the level of my pains.

No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.

But death was a wind too strong for that.

make grief a weapon!

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

If something is eating at you, you gotta find a way to use it.

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.