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Quotes About Overcoming

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
One by one by one by one. That's how I got through losing a leg. Minute by minute by minute by minute. Hour by hour by hour by hour. Day by day by day by day. That's how anybody makes it through anything
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Conquering the wild is nothing compared to fixing the cracks in your heart.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.
~ Charles J. Shields
The thing was over. He himself was back home in bed again and safe. God knows why or how but he had come through one more. No telling what might happen the next time but why worry about that? This one was over and nothing had happened at all. Why did they make such a fuss?
~ Charles Jackson
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
~ Charles Jones
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key.
~ Charles Lummis
Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!
~ Charles M. Schultz
It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Sidewalks always win Knees always lose!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Gonna be a real frog-strangling turd-floater.
~ Charles Martin
Maybe broken is what happens before you become unbroken.
~ Charles Martin
The stone had been rolled away... That fact alone demands a response.
~ Charles Martin
O único monstro com que precisas de te preocupar na vida é aquele que olha para ti todas as manhãs, ao espelho. Doma-o, torna-te amigo dele e conseguirás lidar com tudo na vida.
~ Charles Martin
Dummy #3, the man with the cut Achilles
~ Charles Martin
a glimmer of hope return from somewhere deep, rising like a phoenix out of the ashes of defeat and impossibility. In a whisper I was accustomed to, she said "Thank you" and
~ Charles Martin
You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.
~ Charles Martin
We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called 'hopelessness.' It's carried on the air around here, and I am fighting it." My
~ Charles Martin
I will not let the fear of what might be rob me of the promise of what can.
~ Charles Martin
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
~ Charles Monroe Schultz
What have you done when you have bested a fool?
~ Charles Portis
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
~ Charles R. Swindoll