Quotes About Overcoming

Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Kaladin's anxiety began to subside, and he pushed through the worst of the darkness. He always emerged on the other side. Why was that so difficult to remember while in the middle of it?

Cleaning the wound is often more painful than the cut itself.

Who do you think is stronger?" Adolin asked. "The man who has walked easily his entire life, or the man with no legs? The man who must pull himself by his arms?

Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

I don't struggle with feelings of insecurity any longer." "Good." "I'd say I'm pretty good at them.

For the men chatting together softly, the change was in being shown sunlight again. In being reminded that the darkness DID pass. But perhaps most important, the change was in not merely knowing that you weren't alone — but in FEELING it. Realizing that no matter how isolated you thought you were, no matter how often your brain told you terrible things, there WERE others who understood.

I had a splinter once," Shallan noted. "It eventually got out of hand.

Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong, for we've had to carry it all these years.

That's exactly the problem. Everyone's convinced that their lives are over just because their hearts stopped beating." "That's usually a pretty good indication, sule," Galladon said dryly.

For me, if I have writer's block it means I know that what I am writing is not working quite right and I need to go back and fix what is not right. And once I do that I can write onward. Sometimes writer's block is just I'm in a funk that day and my writing just isn't working. In that case I write anyway and then throw it away. You can always write. Writer's block is 'I can't write because what I'm writing is crap.

I can't do it." He smiled. "There are certain things I know, Shallan. This is one of them. You can. Find the balance. Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.

That's exactly the problem. Everyone's convinced that their lives are over just because their hearts stopped beating.

Perhaps it was time, for once, to stop letting the rain dictate his mood. He couldn't banish the seed of darkness inside him, but Stormfather, he didn't need to let it rule him either.

Enforcement had done its best to kill me on several occasions. You didn't just get over something like that. In fact, they had killed Megan. She'd recovered. Mostly.

If anyone would be able to go about intimidating forces of nature, it would be you.

and he pushed through the worst of the darkness. He always emerged on the other side. Why was that so difficult to remember while in the middle of it?

We must not cower in the dark because we're afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it.

A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them. And

Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.

She had spent months as a knife, held immobile at someone's throat. It was time to cut.

You want too much of me" he snapped at her as he reached the other side of the chasm. "I'm not some glorious knight of ancient days. I'm a broken man. Do you hear me Syl? I'm broken ." She zipped up to him and whispered "That's what they all were, silly.

Some men were blind, others had poor tempers. Still others heard voices. It was all the same, in the end. A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.