Quotes About Overcoming

You...you once told me that the night in the maze didn't have to be the thing that defined me. You said I could choose what it was that defined me. Well, you don't have to let that...that chair define you

And I have huge admiration for you picking yourself up and moving on. Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

I had my battles, my deceptions, and my gardens of failure.

Your greatest triumph in life will spring from your greatest trial."-Jon Courson Job Series, 3/25/19 Job 42

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

The problem is that you are taking it too personal. Step back for a moment. Don't focus on these people personally. Forget they even have names. Don't think of it as you versus them. Just realize that they represent the negativity that will always be around you. The important thing is to know how to deal with the negativity and what to do with it.

I define those who have gained fame and fortune not so much by their achievements as by how they got there—the enormous odds they overcame, the dignity and courage they displayed in the process, the way they treated people ethically and fairly along the way.

Jonathan Allen

Anxiety does not exist to control you. You exist to control it.

Licitis perimus omnes

Bad guys are supposed to lose. I change that. I win

For Ali, it was the beginning of a battle to overcome the dyslexia and poor reading skills that had hampered him since childhood.

Many of the things that don't kill you can damage you for life.

Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.

The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely.

watch Die Hard films until the day started making sense again.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 NIV)

What I do know is that there was a way out for me. I know that I don't feel stupid anymore. I don't believe I'm defective anymore. I don't hurt the way I hurt that day in my room with that bottle of pills anymore. There was for me, and there is for you, a way to, as the philosopher Judith Butler wrote, "work the trap that one is inevitably in." Normal must be resisted if you are ever going to live your life, as who you are, fully, in all your complexity.

Just remember this, girl, the water you hate is the water that's going to drown you.

But death, in the end, had not come. Bartimeaus had instead.

Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!

Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to NOT give up and NOT be a quitter. No matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.