Quotes About Overcoming

Each one of us hauled rocks on our backs, some larger than others, I realized. Some people had grown so accustomed to the extra weight that they no longer seemed aware of the baggage.

No, your problem is that you've grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you're afraid of what will happen if you don't. Being happy frightens the very life out of you.

your problem is that you've grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you're afraid of what will happen if you don't. Being happy frightens the very life out of you.

There's been too much hurt. Too much pain. I just want it to stop.

Temos de nos reconciliar com os obstáculos que não conseguimos derrubar. Admitir que fazem parte de algo que não foi desenhado por nós e que nem sempre podemos alterar.

It's not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It's how you get over it.

As the old French proverb warns: "He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet ? Denis Waitley

You told yourself it was okay—because that's what you had to do to cross a body of water—but it wasn't.

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have been this other one they call Spartak.

Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass by thee must past thee by.

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit: redeemed, cleansed and sanctified by the blood of Jesus. My members are instruments of righteousness yielded to God for His service and for His glory. The devil has no place in me, no power over me, no unsettled claims against me. All has been settled by the blood of Jesus. I overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of my testimony. Another one

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

It is important to tell your story. It is equally important not to get trapped in your story. It is not what happened to us that matters but how what happened hurt us.

When we can accept both our humanity and the perpetrator's we can write a new story. One in which we are no longer cast as a victim, but a survivor, even perhaps a hero.

Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman of great strength, capable of overcoming grief, not once, but over and over again?

It's what happens when you live through things you shouldn't have been able to live through and can't reconcile that knowledge with the fact that you did.

I have lived through a fucking world war," I said, my voice low and venomous. "I have lost a child. I have lost two husbands. I have starved with an army, been beaten and wounded, been patronized, betrayed, imprisoned, and attacked. And I have fucking survived!" My voice was rising, but I was helpless to stop it. "And now should I be shattered because some wretched, pathetic excuses for men stuck their nasty little appendages between my legs and wiggled them?!

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle. Past that certain point, you

shoved those pusillanimous images firmly back into the