Quotes About Overcoming

I hate being shy. I hate it.

That's what the list was about. The chance to get it right. It wasn't about tucking in shirts and piggyback rides. It was about not letting your weight define you, and not letting it decide when you could be the person you wanted to be.

I could grow from that broken place and be better for it. A flower growing through a crack in the pavement, as it were.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul.

Aquilo que você resiste, persiste.

There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.

You have to go through it to get through it." That

Their failure is just another expression of their helplessness

Harsh fate, but its burden becomes lighter to bear, since everything that attempts to turn back is impossible. (I, 24)

That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.

Entonces fue cuando empecé a darme cuenta de que se aguantan mucho mejor las contrariedades grandes que las pequeñas nimiedades de cada día.

Casi no se atrevía a respirar, allí escondida. La verdad es que era una emoción mezclada de miedo. Pero miss Lunatic le había dicho que, frente a las aventuras nuevas, siempre se siente algo de miedo y que no hay más remedio que vencerlo.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Carol Higgins Clark

S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop. —Ruth

You've lived through all this, Ruth. Do you know how strong that makes you? Ruth, it takes more work to be afraid than to ride the fear, to live with the fear, to accept it.

Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A test score? A dishonest or callous action? Being fired from a job? Being rejected? Focus on that thing. Feel all the emotions that go with it. Now put it in a growth-mindset perspective. Look honestly at your role in it, but understand that it doesn't define your intelligence or personality. Instead, ask: What did I (or can I ) learn from that experience? How can I use it as a basis for growth? Carry that with you instead.

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it." Pulling

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it.

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it. He used it to become a better player and, he believes, a

Let's write ourselves a better ending than this.

Some days the universe simply conspires against you.