Quotes About Overcoming

Valley's don't last forever... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

Valleys don't last forever. Neither did the mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Setbacks are a natural part of life, and you've got to be careful how you respond to them.

There's nothing that funny about failure.

People always think that we're the dregs and we're the trash and we're the bottoms of the pickle barrel, but we do all right!

Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain-passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers

Right, good temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

So what do we do?... We keep reading, and it just might be our turn to triumph.

We're all afraid, but that didn't stop us.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two--a schism or a death, a fire or a mutiny, the loss of a home or the destruction of a tea set.

Lenore Coffee

It was kicking butt! What

The phrase learn how to walk on bound feet was what struck me the hardest. I suddenly realized that I would never walk naturally again.

Temptations can come also from the deep-seated forces within us which we call passions, passions that often are rebellious and imperfectly controlled as a result of original sin. But from whatever source the temptation may come, we know that we can conquer it if we have the will to do so.

There wasn't a stick over which he didn't stumble, and if he had bread he wouldn't have a knife, and if he had both bread and a knife he wouldn't be able to find the salt. His

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.

except shaking his head.

Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life—fears