Quotes About Overcoming

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time.

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome.

If I spent all my time fearing the things I should, I'd never stop screaming.

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

I could smell death in the air and I knew it was mine. I could see the world spinning around me and I could sense the blows being thrust into my body. I blacked out.

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I'm going to help you forgive the things that you won't let yourself forget.

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

I earned my place, With the tidal waves.I can't escape this feeling, That something ain't right.I called my nameAs I crashed the gates, Still I can't escape this feelingThat something ain't right.

If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.

It's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.

To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential, ' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

We can all be hurt.

that he really had suffered

En ocasiones sucede algo tan catastrófico que durante un tiempo, a veces durante mucho tiempo, resulta imposible ver algo en la oscuridad, incluso parece imposible creer que haya algo más allá. Pero siempre lo hay. Incluso, tal vez, en el momento de la muerte. Sobre todo en ese momento.

If we can only face our worst fears and move forward into them and through them instead of cowering or turning tail and running as far from them as we can, then we will never have to fear anything ever again.

Victims wallow. They fret over what they cannot control. And I'm no victim.

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes. ? Mary Doria Russell, Children of God