Quotes About Overcoming

Ethan tries not to look back on that night. At least, as much as human nature allows. But it's a funny thing about your darkest moments. They have a life of their own. They come around because they've got you pinned. Because they can. The harder you try to push them back into the shadows, the stronger they grow. They draw power from your resistance.

We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill

But when you're already swimming in a sea of humiliation deep enough to drown you, it doesn't matter much if somebody throws in another bucketful. It's not worth it to stop and pay attention to that when you need to keep paddling.

Look for strength in unexpected places.

the problem with unforgivable. The more I research the bodymind, the more I get that the only workable path to workable health is to forgive the unforgivable in spite of its unforgivability.

When anything is very bad, usually the method to fix it is also bad, and keeps you from putting it completely behind you.

It did. Actually. Though I'm not sure that was the good news. "You don't sound too sure." "It's just that . . . what you just said . . . it's that kind of advice that lets you know what to do but not how to do it. I mean, how do you not take that stuff on?" "Right. I'll grant you that. It's easier said than done. But practice at it. You'll get better at anything you practice.

Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

Well!" said Charlotte, and she meant to say something more, something clever, something brave, but she simply had not been prepared to stare down an army of frogs today.

Perhaps, if you take a long enough view, we are all stronger than our goblins.

No matter what pain, what hard things come to us in life—and pain and trouble come to all of us—no matter what dark roads we walk or poor choices we make, it is not the end of the story.

When I heard that Helen drank a bottle of whiskey and shaved off all her hair, I thought, This is it. She's going to kill herself. But of course I underestimated Helen. Stronger than her will to die was her will to endure, especially when she thought she was being tested.

It was like Tobin had told her: they didn't matter. She never should have given them that much power.

You must school your mind and not let your fears be your master.

I understood that where Michael Mompellion had been broken by our shared ordeal, in equal measure I had been tempered and made strong.

Het was verschrikkelijk, zeker, maar er was al zoveel verschrikkelijks in mijn leven gebeurd dat ik - hoe, dat zoude wel altijd een raadsel blijven - had overleefd en doorstaan... Misschien kon dit er nog net bij...

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

she was determined to overcome her loneliness. She allowed no one else to know of the inner struggle, and she fought the battle alone, realizing that no one could help her. The

The Book of Eights' emphasis is on overcoming any longing for any form of future rebirth.

The Book of Eights' emphasis is on overcoming any longing for any form of future rebirth. In contrast to later Buddhist teachings that are predicated on the belief in rebirth, the Book of Eights presents a path of practice—attainable in this lifetime—that appears free from concern with multiple lives.

Difficulties existed only to be surmounted, and there was no setback that a little thought and determination could not overcome.

arriver en terrain conquis (arriving on conquered ground),

Sometimes we have to break down to break through.