Quotes About Overcoming

a heartbreak only makes your heart bigger, that someday all those cracks and holes will be filled in with all the joy and love you haven't had yet.

you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

I needed to learn that you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

Kari Sutherland

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world." - Helen Keller

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination - Jimmy Dean

They say that some of those who failed to reach the top fell into deep ravines, and others were swallowed by monsters and demons," said Baz. "The monsters and demons were of their own making," said Tadis. "If you invent them, you will have to slay them. That is common practice, is it not? We invent monsters so we will have something to slay. Then we punish ourselves for not being up to the task.

I am my enemy Mowing me over, And towing the light away.

I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?

had proved myself stronger than life had ever asked him to be.

But though I tried, my days went by as if I was walking barefoot over sharp stones, whilst carrying a large tray laden with the finest crystal goblets. Fear and too much caution ...they'll make you stumble, sir. 'Tis just a matter of time.

When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.

The tricky bit was looking inside yourself to see what bits of the works were missing. Once you'd overcome that hurdle the rest was fairly simple.

They...think their traumas are the most interesting thing about them." "If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?

Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right?

How did we get through?' Bong Cha had been baffled by Sam's question. 'We got up in the morning.

If their traumas are the most interesting things about them, how do they get over any of it?

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

In all the free falls of one's life, there are moments that stand out as a hand reaching across the abyss, and this, for me, was one of them.

The struggle was hard-won, especially when the worst demons in the room were mine.

Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)

You're not tough. You're broken.

A person always has control over how she meets her adversities, and the good news is that the facing of them, one after another, year after year, builds an inner strength that nobody can take away from you.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.