Quotes About Overcoming

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Don't let your failures define you.

Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.

A woman named Helen Keller fought her way through long, silent darkness. Though she could not see or hear; she taught us to look at and listen to each other. Never waiting for life to get easier, she gave others courage to face their challenges.

I had nothing to escape from except my own inner doubt.

The trick is not caring that it hurts.

I know what it's like to be in a system that's unfair. I know what it's like to start behind and to be asked to do more, to act like the injustice didn't happen. But I can't let that shape my choices, and neither should you.

Sometimes it didn't matter how good your process was. Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

She closed her fists, one around the other, and pressed her lips against them, willing the rage and the fear to pass; and when they passed, there was nothing left. It was as if the unvoiced scream had burned everything out of her and left only a well of dark and unnatural calm, a universe deep.

His face was a mass of scars and old angers.

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown

If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from.

Whatever it is, you can live through it, and it ends.

Brain of a deer tick, but that's not something to hold against a running back.

People find more ways to shut up their monsters than a Bible has verses.

When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.

it's not just girls that end up inside four walls of hate and knuckles for breakfast, it can be anybody. Hate comes along and lays out the damn doormat and there you are.

She wondered if humiliation ever ran its natural course and peeled off, like a sunburn, or just kept blazing.

I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.

Certain ramshackle aspects of Dellarobia had also gone undercover, it seemed, just like the snow-covered barns. Some defects lurked, but for now her way seemed clear. She'd made plans.

the tall weed gets cut.

I told Dr. Andresen I was going for it, and she did the rare thing of smiling with her whole mouth. I think you are unlikely to obliterate, she said. And I said, You watch. (a conversation with his therapist)

She cursed aloud and sat up. Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road—so hard to shake off. So easy to get back. No man had ever spoken to her

thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go.