Quotes About Overcoming

I do not want to spend another minute of whatever I have left bein' scared. I can't carry the fear anymore. Not mine. Not yours. I have to lay that burden down.

The fact that my house was Not Right metastasized into the notion that I myself was somehow Not Right, or that my survival in the world depended on my constant vigilance against various forms of Not-Rightness.

was behind in every conceivable way. So the old attack dog started howling through my head as I'd

Therefore, dark past, I'm about to do it. I'm about to forgive you for everything.

That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.

Yet little by little I learned to love my life. Though sometimes I had to run hard— especially from melancholy— not to be held back.

What were rain and storm to me?

when she died!—nay, then I was not miserable. I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish to riot

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light. -Gaara

For the records I lose graduation exam three times. Cause there was this one jutsu there always on the exam. It trip me every time. It was one jutsu I couldn't master. Yes, my clones were pathetic, I flown the shadow clone jutsu every time. So don't come whining to ne this destiny stuff and stop trying to tell me you can't change what your are. You can do it too, cause after all unlike me you are not a failure.

Les gens ne pleurent pas parce qu'ils sont faibles, ils pleurent parce qu'ils sont forts depuis trop longtemps

That's how I survived. Time and time again. That's my secret. I survived because I willed it to be. ... How did I survive apocalyptic fire? I simply refused to feel the flames.

The scar will become a symbol.

you fall flat on your face and find yourself in an embarrassing position, just joke about it because in the big picture it is NO BIG DEAL. By laughing

A story about survival and/or strength. Tales about near-death experiences and overcoming difficulties are very inspiring because they show human strength. Motivational stories emphasize human mortality and also reveal how a person can have incredible strength.  Use real-life experiences to highlight the fact that people can do anything they put their minds to.

Matthew MacDonald

Maybe that's just what moving on is, not getting over, but skipping over.

The same thing as you, the same as she. The same as anyone who has ever been doubted or told to go away. To prove myself better.

Living well is the best revenge

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that 'seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way.

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains.

if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?" "I . . . don't know. What . . . could he do? What would you tell him?" "To shrug.

He decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.