Quotes About Overcoming

Mi miedo es un animal en crecimiento que exige alimentación y que se va tragando todo.

There had been little hurts and big ones and she could hardly tell them apart, and it all sounded crazy anyway.

No one is ever ready for something like this. You don't do it because you're ready. You do it because you're weary. And I am weary. I have been weary for too long.

So sometimes what takes you down can be used to raise you up again.

My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I'm over it.

Facing the fear helped. Most days. But the thing about fear was that it ate away at your reason, made you smaller. It was her mini dare each day to come home to this place. To embrace normal and live her own life on her own terms, even if she was afraid. Her life was her own. She made it, and no one would take it from her again.

You know, El, you're so much more than the time you were with Bill and the attack. You took something shitty and you made a new future. Most people don't do that. They hang on forever. It's easy to stay in that pit of despair. Or let it be your excuse for not moving on.

I definitely think there are times -- setbacks -- where it's dark while you're going through it, but eventually you figure out why you had to survive that dark time.

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.

The gallows that Magellan had erected still cast a shadow over a hill

Laurence Bergreen

Fletcher recalled, "this was the greatest." They were grateful to have overcome it, "but it was not the last.

After trauma, any way that a person can find to pick themselves up and become a new and better version of themselves makes them stronger.

Although I'm marked by my inner scars, I'm also empowered by my experiences.

A dark time is the time when the most light can come in.

It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.

It's too late. He's already learned how not to drown.

Like after a prairie fire...It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning, the soil is richer, and new things can grow....People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.

Sometimes, just when you think everything is gone, you find a way.

Maybe sometimes, she thought, the bird with its head held high took flight. Maybe sometimes, the nail that stuck up pierced the foot that stomped down.

Às vezes, quando você acha que tudo está perdido, encontra uma saída. (...) É como um incêndio florestal. (...) Parece o fim do mundo. A terra fica toda queimada e preta, e todo o verde some. Mas, depois de queimar, o solo fica mais rico e coisas novas podem crescer ali. (...) As pessoas também são assim, sabe? Elas recomeçam. Dão um jeito.

Sometimes, just when you think everything's gone, you find a way.