Quotes About Overcoming

feel, and think—it comes for our bones. Anguish often causes us to physically crumple in on ourselves, literally bringing us to our knees or forcing us all the way to the ground.

The element of powerlessness is what makes anguish traumatic.

The Rising Strong Process The goal of the process is to rise from our falls, overcome our mistakes, and face hurt in a way that brings more wisdom and wholeheartedness into our lives.

Panic, anxiety, fear, and hysteria, followed by freedom, pride, and amazement—then a little more panic.

She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful. — TERRI ST. CLOUD,

I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

When I think about my self-esteem, I think about who I am in relation to who I want to be, where I come from, what I've overcome and what I've accomplished. When I feel shame, I'm taken back to this place of smallness where I lose that sense of context. I'm returned to a small place—I can't see

I do believe we can heal disappointment, but it's important not to underestimate the damage it inflicts on our spirit.

In addition to the fear of disappointing people or pushing them away with our stories, we're also afraid that if we tell our stories, the weight of a single experience will collapse upon us. There is a real fear that we can be buried or defined by an experience that, in reality, is only a sliver of who we are.

circumstances. We feel reduced, less capable, and lost in the face of struggle.

the measure of our greatness is in how we stand up after we fall".

target cringing abjectly

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

In most testimonies the good news is only a small part of the story, obscured by our achieving and overcoming. In Brennan's story, and in mine, the good news is the entire story, which blessedly leaves us with nothing to prove or protect.

Really, once the worst happens, it's always happening. It's never not happening.

Despair never won any game. Defeat came quickly to those who thought of it.

A life lived in fear is a life half-lived

We all have things, Bast. We carry them, they weigh us down and sometimes they suck us under. The goal is to know when to drop and when to reach for a hand.

With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope. Darkness cannot shut me in again. I have had a glimpse of the shore, and can now live by the hope of reaching it.

Los hombres no están hechos para la derrota. Se les puede destruir, pero no derrotar.

I was beginning to suspect that the fire had destroyed something inside me. People can have load-bearing beams that give way too.

every Christian is constantly invited to overcome his neighbor's fear by entering into it with him, and to find in the fellowship of suffering the way to freedom.

A lot of people have to spend so much energy on overcoming their low opinion of themselves that they seldom get round to asking about the purpose of their existence. And if they do, it is often out of fear.