Quotes About Overcoming

Sharon Mills Draper

I have learned to forgive the unforgivable. My hope is that as I share my journey, you too will learn to do the same.

I am working on forgiving the unforgivable.

There is an exercise in a book I read by Pema Chödrön, an American woman who became a Buddhist nun, where you sit and concentrate on that which is overwhelming you and ask this energy, this thing, to overwhelm you totally; to consume you. At the point of total consumption, then you ask how many others are feeling this same exact thing at the same exact time and you ask to join their energy. I have found this to be the most healing and compassionate exercise.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

the biggest obstacle I had to overcome that day was not the aura of Pipeline, the coral reef, or the local crew. It was myself. As soon as I convinced myself that I belonged, nothing could stop me.

The human spirit is tremendously resilient. It can withstand the most horrific of circumstances, whether of human or divine creation... It is not these larger-than-life situations that beat us. It's the little things.

I loved this woman with every pore in my body. We'd been through several rough patches in our marriage, but we'd overcome them. I would do anything to protect my marriage. Nothing and no one would come in between us.

Scar tissue does more than flaunt its strength by chronicling the assaults it has withstood. Scar tissue is new growth. And it is tougher than skin innocent of the blade.

Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

Insecurity is designed to take away from you. That is why you should never give into it.

If you suffer misfortune … do you damnedest to ignore it. Wallowing in what-might-have-beens and what-could have-happeneds will only keep your emotional wounds festering.

Lessons? Oh no. I didn't need lessons." He glanced up and found her shaking her head in disgust at her own idiocy. "You see, Sissy said I wouldn't need lessons. 'You're a shifter,' she said. 'We can do anything,' she said.

That ugly freak has spent so much time in my head, I should be charging him rent." -Four

You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky.

Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.

The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

A lot of people didn't realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.

I see a sea of millions of people going down with their own negative thoughts, going down for the third time in this big sea of iniquity and negativity.