Quotes About Overcoming

Karen Marie Moning

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. The soles of my shoes should have been steaming.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent, damning fault line.

Most of the time I can handle the mess I call my life, but in the butt-crack of the night even I get a little depressed

I'm always thinking things are as bad as they can get and they get worse.

Karen Marie Moning

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.

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got a kick in the ass from one of our clients. He'd lost his sight in an accident—hard enough, but he was a surgeon. His career, in his mind, was over." "Was it?" "Of course not. He couldn't do surgery, but he could other things. Over time, and with a lot of nagging, he began to accept that. He restarted his life, reinvented himself." "You saved him." She shook her head, embarrassed. "No. I was just his friend.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me

Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you.

You are stronger than your challenges and your challenges are making you stronger.

Sometimes you're taken into troubled waters not to drown but to be cleansed

You gotta faith it to make it! Looking for a miracle to happen? Consider that perhaps something not happening was your miracle.

It is what it is--but you have the power to turn it into an isn't-so-bad

There is a gain in every pain

It is often your deepest pain which empowers you to grow to your highest self

It's okay to be scared as long as you use it.

Things do not always work out as we have planned, do they? Sometimes the hardest thing is not to just survive the grief, but to step around it and move on. It helps if your suitcases are not so full.

it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

When everything you're about to see is too much, look up and see that the sky is clear and know that everything is going to be all right.

You're strong at the broken places.