Quotes About Overcoming

One can cut the body, and it will heal—but do it over and over again in the same spot, and you will scar.

The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter?

That doesn't matter," she said. "You came back. No one's ever come back before.

Estoy roto. —¿Y quién no? La vida nos rompe, Teft. Y entonces rellenamos las grietas con algo más fuerte.

It's hard sometimes," Noril said, stirring. "Coming awake means leaving the nothingness, you know? Remembering the pain. But then I think, 'Well, he gets up'.

He wasn't broken. All of them were broken.

Lopen,' they'd say, 'you only have one arm, but I see that you can glow. I think that should you kiss me now.

I have to keep moving. Keep working. Don't let the pain take control.

man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

La fe… Recordó una voz del pasado. Su propia voz, hablándole a Vin aquel terrible día tras la muerte de Kelsier. La fe no es solo para los bellos momentos y los días felices. ¿Qué es creer, qué es la fe si no persistes en ella después del fracaso?

We'll do it. Somehow we'll make them listen - even if they got their fingers planted firmly in their ears. Makes one wonder how they manage it, with their heads rammed up their own backsides.

Había vivido con miedo tanto tiempo que había llegado a considerarlo tan natural como la ceniza, el sol y la tierra misma.

But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Steris!" he said. "You'll end up humiliating yourself." She closed her eyes. "Dear Lord Waxillium. Earlier, you spoke of the power of not caring about what others thought of you. Do you remember?" "Yes." "Well, you see," she said, opening her eyes and smiling, "I'm trying to practice that skill." She proceeded to vomit all over the table. *

I wanted to move. I needed to move. But in those moments, I could more easily have lifted a semi truck filled with pudding.

Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it .

Just because you've had misfortune in your past doesn't mean you have to give up on your future.

no longer the lost, no longer the same , and i can see you starting to break

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

We like recovery stories to move quickly through the dark so we can get to the sweeping redemptive ending. I worry that this lack of honest accounts of overcoming adversity has created a Gilded Age of Failure.

Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen.

What I'm proposing is that we learn how to wade through it. We need to see that standing on the shore and catastrophisizing about what could happen if we talked honestly about our fears is actually more painful than grabbing the hand of a trusted companion and crossing the swamp.

We get stuck and defined by setbacks, disappointments, and failures, so instead of spending resources on clean-up to ensure that consumers, stakeholders, or internal processes are made whole, we are spending too much time and energy reassuring team members who are questioning their contribution and value.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced

As Marcus Aurelius taught us, "What stands in the way becomes the way.