Quotes About Overcoming

I've never been through what you have, but I've been in the dark a few times. Sometimes the light's just too bright.

but sometimes it's necessary to face your fears to learn from them.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

Don't--she bit her lip and held it. Don't turn your back just because it terrifies you. [...] I don't think I'm strong enough, Aaron said. Slowly the steam faded from the pub's windows. Helen was staring across the street as well. She said, How do you think people get strong?

Self-pity is a worse adversary than ignorance.

La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.

Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we face it alone.

He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world.

No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.

You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.

You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it

Annamaria had me verzekerd dat ik in werkelijkheid maar één keer zou sterven, en dat die dood er op geen enkele manier toe zou doen. Iedereen kent echter dagen waarin we een beetje doodgaan, wanneer we verdriet of een nederlaag te verwerken hebben, of bang zijn, of anderen zien lijden die we enkel medelijden kunnen bieden, geen hulp, mensen die buiten de grenzen van onze genade vallen.

Everyone is damaged, but the heart can be repaired.

a German shepherd—that lost one leg in a violent encounter

After twenty-six months on Jacob's Ladder, her fear has largely faded

Boris Sergetov

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

actually Dorian Purcell.

She can be bent so severely that it doesn't seem as though she can ever straighten herself out again, but she always does. She gets on with getting on.

I was born under a glass heel, and have always lived there,'" Tim quoted.

the rejection hurt.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

Isn't that the way life goes? Just when everything seems perfect and nothing could possibly go wrong, then, boom, you're tossed onto your butt, wondering what in the name of heaven happened.