Quotes About Overcoming

Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.

Do your fears warn of external dangers? Or, are they the kind that keep you from becoming more of your true self?

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

Like flowers blooming through cement, we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

If you believe that life is scary, untrustworthy, cruel, harsh, and unfair, instead of feeling angry and aggressive, you may feel defeated, powerless, and afraid to face life. Many who find themselves in the grip of addictions feel just this way.

Forgiveness is never not possible.

Like her, he didn't buy the Nietzschean line that whatever didn't kill you made you stronger. Sometimes whatever didn't kill you disfigured and debilitated you for the rest of your life instead of killing you. Mere survival was neither here nor there. It was the manner of survival, what you did with whatever it was that didn't kill you.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.

You don't have to move past it, but you do have to move through it.

Any why are people afraid to "let go"? Because to "let go" implies a surrender of one's self to this whole process of "falling" and the most primary and early and deep rooted fear that every one is born with, so psychologists tell us, is the fear of falling. If a man can overcome his fear of falling he can overcome the world.

In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.

Glynnis Campbell

The hell you pass through is not as severe as the one you would create for yourself out of it.

Use the negative to get into the positive, don't wait for the positive to get you out of the negative.

Falling Doesn't Make You a Failure, Staying Down Does.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

The key is not to let these things fester. Worst of all, don't revel in being a victim. Don't become comfortable in your misery. Take back control. You may not be able to change what happened, but you can change your perception of it. All you need is the intention, and you have the power to change. Face up to what happened, admit it and try to move on. Through understanding, try to forgive not only yourself but the person who did this to you. This is truly another path to happiness.

Things work out; it isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

He had won. True enough, he had won over nothing more than shadows within him. Still, there was that same feeling that he had had after he had come successfully up through the cellar and past Wolf with the canned food in his arms, and the feeling following that evening in which Wolf had come to him in a new, strangely submissive manner. In both cases, he had known a feeling that he had passed some kind of watershed in his life.

Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on.