Quotes About Overcoming

You're not a blade or an animal, Nathan. whatever awful things you were forced to do in your past don't define who you are today." She inched closer, braved the smallest caress of his stern jaw. " Nathan, you are not what they tried to make you.

Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.

Those who survive a long time on the battlefield start to think they're invincible. I bet you do, too, Buddy.

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

And what has been so awful in your life that you have to write about it?" Mrs Lincoln, a definite gall bladder, persevered.

Hey, Dinky …, sooner or later you're going to have to make a commitment to someone. Which means making a commitment to yourself. And a commitment to the notion that our shitty beginnings don't have to cripple us for life.

In the school of life, Trials, Hardship, and Suffering are three classes no one wants to take.

That's what the backside of hardship and suffering does. It teaches us perspective. It takes the fear out of the things that terrify others. It

Don't ever, ever give up. Moses was once a basket case.

Estoy cansada de sentirme mal, cansada de defenderlo o justiciar su comportamiento porque su madre lo abandonó, cansada de necesitar un chico para ser feliz, cansada de este estúpido apodo de Sabbie, simplemente cansada. Quiero ser feliz sola. Quiero divertirme. Quiero ser segura de nuevo y superarlo. Seguir adelante.

No tienes la menor idea de lo que ha significado para mí recoger todos los pedazos de mis sueños rotos. Y nunca lo entenderás. Si me hubieses matado anoche, no me habrías hecho más daño del que me has hecho ya.

Lo importante es ser capaces de salir adelante, no importa lo duro que parezca el camino.

Laura Hillenbrand

I can't describe the feeling he gave me," Howard said later, "but somehow I knew he had what it takes. Tom and I realized that we had our worries and troubles ahead. We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors.

A month earlier, twenty-six-year-old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport. Now his Olympian's body had wasted to less than one hundred pounds and his famous legs could no longer lift him. Almost everyone outside of his family had given him up for dead.

what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him. He was not the worthless, broken, forsaken man that the Bird had striven to make of him. In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. Softly, he wept.

Louie, declared dead more than sixty years earlier, would outlive them all.

Thorbjørn Christiansen

You don't throw a whole life away just because it's banged up a little bit.

If Red breaks that leg again," Howard said soberly, "it will cripple him for life." Alexander told him that maybe it was better to break a man's leg than his heart.

If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself.

I guess we've both managed to plow through a lot of shit. Well listen, it's been enough to make me nothing short of fanatically determined to have it right once and that's what we're doing, right? - Janis Joplin

Living well is the best revenge (Margot Radcliffe)

The thing about feeling hopeless is that it's hard to recall secrets to happiness, even if you've had hundreds of them memorized for years like multiplication facts.