Quotes About Overcoming

I started writing to deal with my childhood abuse and to help me get over it. I began putting my thoughts on paper because I saw a show on Oprah where she said it was "cathartic" to write things down. Being from a substandard public school system, I didn't even know what "cathartic" meant. I had to look it up. So I started writing, but I didn't

The truth is I had to imagine myself in a better place," I explained. "Because sometimes the nights got so cold and the days

If God can bring me out of poverty and despair and place me right in the middle of the life I'd always imagined, he can do the same for anyone. And that includes you.

MY CHILDHOOD WAS A STORY of discouragement, belittlement, and unthinkable abuse, and yet I rose above. There was no way I could have found any kind of happiness, hope, or vision if my mother, Maxine, and my aunt Mae hadn't shown

hear the damning things Emmitt said to me. Because of his cruelty, for many years, I didn't feel as if I deserved to be happy or successful. I didn't feel worthy because I had his voice resonating in my head, telling me that I was nothing, that I was horrible, that I didn't deserve anything good in life. When you grow up being told those things every day, they take root in your subconscious and undermine every positive event in your life.

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn't advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That's all that I can say. 'If I fall....' - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."" -

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

You can't run away from trouble. Ain't no place that far.

Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.

One shouldn't commit suicide out of fear of death.

Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them

Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it.

Failure isn't falling. It's refusing to get back up.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes into assets. Adversity is Nature's method of disciplining people to learn to take possession of their own minds. Greatest blessings often come from the greatest adversities. Study yourself carefully and you may discover that your own emotions are your greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking.

She was unstoppable not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continues on despite them.

You are worth more than your darkness

So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them.

Life, we can now say, is getting something to happen against the odds, and remembering how to do it.

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.