Quotes About Overcoming

Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur.

why would it? He had won, and

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Goddamn it, I thought, at the mention of her name. I just couldn't get clear of these people. They were like cancer. You think you've cut it out, it always comes back.

It wasn't how far you fell, it was how high you bounced

if you try to outrun your own shadow, you're bound to fall on your face.

Sometimes the most horrible things are what give us strength.

I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages.

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too," I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

You must not think of them [Hebrews 12 Cloud of Witnesses] as perfect saints who never suffered as we do. Instead you must see them as the flawed and the betrayed and the wounded who simply chose to live above the programming of their pain.

the pressures of circumstance

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

We are limited, but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

When you exercise your patience beyond your past limits, the emotional fiber is broken, nature overcompensates, and next time the fiber is stronger.

Mending is harder than breaking

There is] truth on the far side of despair and doom. All we have to do is find it.

Destruction was easier than preservation, and when destruction had risen high enough, mere men and women could not be condemned if they failed to throw back the tide.

When things go bad, anything can hurt you, including doing nothing.

as you continue in action, the fear dissolves, like a fist full of salt in the river.

The lesson Rett taught me was one I've never forgotten. Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

Peacefully taking a sword to all those negative, frightening, depressing thoughts that are automatically believed… so that a great, timeless, active day can be created. A day with no time in it unless you want to make some.

Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

It may not be your fault for being down, but it is your fault for not getting back up

But circumstances make victims of us all at times.