Quotes About Overcoming

Dear Lord, when storms come—in the skies, in the people around me, or in my heart—help me to remember that You are right there with me and that You are bigger than any storm!

the footprints of two of my own Goliaths: control and approval.

She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.

When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)

Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

The great lesson of my life is perseverance. Never give up. It's like my brother said, "Isn't one minute of pain worth a lifetime of glory?

If you can take it, you can make it

I thought I had problems, but now, knowing what you went through, I've stopped feeling sorry for myself. I'm going to quit tearing myself apart and treat my problems more lightly.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

And so I have remained, in relentless pursuit of truth and excellence, an unforgiving executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

If we make a conscious decision not to be victims of the past and go about creating new lives for ourselves, we are supported by this Power within, and new, happier experiences begin to unfold.

I go beyond barriers into possibilities.

The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment.

We have ideas about ourselves that we use as limitations or resistance to changing. We are: Too old. Too young. Too fat. Too thin. Too short. Too tall. Too lazy. Too strong. Too weak. Too dumb. Too smart. Too poor. Too worthless. Too frivolous. Too serious. Too stuck. Maybe it's just all too much.

The fault is here, but so is the solution. That's the grace.

After all, it's how the light gets in.

When you've seen the worst, You appreciate the best.

Things are strongest where they're broken.

Chief Inspector Gamache chose men and women for his team who might also be afraid, but had the courage to rise above it.

Knowledge wasn't always power. Sometimes it was crippling.

Lying all night, holding Clara, he'd dared to hope that the worst was over. That maybe the grief, while still there, would today allow some of his wife to be present. But the woman he knew and loved had been swallowed up. Like Jonah.

Or worse, dwell in it. Take up residence in the tragedies, the pain. The hurt. To make a home in hell.