Quotes About Overcoming

Bad is never good until worse happens.

At times, challenges hit with the force of a roaring, rushing waterfall. The true test, however, is whether you can put your arms up and enjoy the feel of the water.

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.

Life leaves its bootprints all over us — we just have to keep getting back up.

Ponekad ?ovek preživljuje takve stvari, da sama ?injenica da ih je preživeo zna?i ne samo pobedu i izbavljenje nego i ?udo; jedno ponovno, radosno ro?enje po naro?itoj milosti viših sila.

Samo plivati! Isplivati iz hladne vode i okrenuti le?a svemu, i maštanjima o onom što je bilo, i ?ega nema, i što bi trebalo biti, i ovoj obali i ovom životu. Plivati i isplivati.

Nothing brings men closer than a common misfortune happily overcome.

Nije dovoljno jednoj stvari le?a okrenuti pa da prestane da nas goni i mu?i.

Svi su oni u suštini jedno i podjednako vredni naše pažnje, jer pokazuju mesto na kome je ?ovek naišao na zapreku i nije zastao pred njom, nego je savladao i premostio kako je mogao, prema svom shvatanju, ukusu i prilikama kojima je bio okružen.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.

Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place.

Relieving pain, like building trust, is an inside job. It is only when you have been broken down mentally, emotionally, or spiritually and choose to stand up and keep moving that you can know the true meaning and value of trust. Trust is a function of choice. Trust grows in hearts that have often been broken open by pain. Trust can unfold in response to devastation, disappointment, and, more often than not, a depth of dysfunction that threatens the human soul. But

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little. — Jeff Bridges' character in Seabiscuit

But then again, if I can only attract what I expect, what was I to do with all of the hurt, sadness, sorrow, anger, and fear that had built up as a result of what I had seen

for the supervisor's failure to promote us, for Boo-Boo's cheating, and for the fact that we just can't seem to get our lives

Although frustrated and angry, I was determined not to give up on forgiveness or myself.

darkness, you bring in the light.

And you kept fighting even after you were knocked down. Goddamn it, you dragged your ass off the ground and you kept fighting. — John Matthew, LOVER MINE

Dammit All To Hell and Back Again!

Perhaps it does us good to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don't break.

Inner strength comes from previous suffering. It sounds like an incongruous statement but the reality is this; if you suffer now and survive it, it makes you better able to deal with suffering in the future.

Letting it matter too much. If it matters too much, it can grind you down until you're nothing. I've been nothing. I can't be nothing ever again.

She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.