Quotes About Overcoming

it was a metaphor for my life, maybe for every woman's life. You fall, you get hurt, you get up again.

little victory over the voice that had lived in my head since I was six years old, telling me I was fat, disgusting, unworthy of love, unworthy of friendship, unworthy of existing in public, even of walking outside; that a girl who looked like me did not deserve to have fun.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive… it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

Tutte le volte che compare un nonostante tutto - questa è la sua esperienza - le cose si fanno interessanti.

Our Calvary may be a very little hill compared with the mountains where Prometheus suffered, but to us it is steep and lonely.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

Maniac Magee was not born in a dump.

hospital in Yuma. We

bind in spite of secrets and

I have two options in this world. I can allow what is happening around me to control me, to break me, to destroy me and make me a twisted, angry shell of a person, as it has done to so many others. Or I can rise above it. There is ugliness around me, but there is beauty, too. I will find whatever I seek.

I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.

We run through the remnants of our pain, and more importantly, we run for our present and for our future. Together we kick heartbreak's ass.

There is life after hell. There is breathing and life and profound love after hell.

We refuse to let the past wreck our today. That's why we're the team that we are.

Life is not fair, but it is what we have to deal with. And we are going to deal with it so that we can live. No, so that we can thrive.

Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. "Gogol

She wanted to shut her eyes to it. She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating. She was made to anticipate it against her will.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.

The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire