Quotes About Overcoming

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Moving backward meant more suffering, and staying stuck was just as bad. That left moving forward. There had to be an answer somewhere. All she had to do was find it.

You're letting the fear win and that makes you small.

From failure, success.

What she hadn't counted on was the fact that she couldn't see a way out. Which would have been something she could manage if only she'd been able to pretend that she wasn't the problem. Because her being the problem implied the only thing standing between her and happiness was herself, and how on earth was she supposed to fix that?

Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

It was only after time had passed that a person was able to see whether she might have been able to bear the load she was sure had been too heavy.

The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward

When your pain is bad, and your strength is gone, you might start thinking of leaving." "Leaving. I like that.

On his very worst day, each one of these men managed to summon his very best. Each one embodied the essence of courage. It is not the state of being unafraid, but the rare ability to confront fear.

When something is hard, but you do it anyway and get stronger because you did it, that's building character.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

this is important.

Life… has a way of testing the fault line

That was one helpful thing he said to her, the first thing that caught her attention. "Start your life." Because she had assumed that her life was over.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly

And sometimes the only way out is down.

To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or we can make sandals. Anger.

This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes nothing saves you. But fuck it, she's still here. She is a living thing, with twelve pins now pressed into the tree-house oak in the backyard and a thirteenth coming

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.