Quotes About Overcoming

Sometimes the only way up is down.

Equanimity and indifference. I think that's the worst of the near enemies, the most corrosive. Equanimity is balance. When something overwhelming happens in our lives we feel it strongly but we also have an ability to overcome it.

And the enemy you'll be fighting is yourself.

Unable to bring himself to believe in a God who offers salvation, the philosopher is above all one who believes that by understanding the world, by understanding ourselves and others as far our intelligence permits, we shall succeed in overcoming fear, through clear-sightedness rather than blind faith.

It is easy to hire someone else to do work for us—someone to clean, someone to tend the garden—but no one can take our place along that road that leads to the conquest of our fears, so that we can adapt to the world and find our right place in it.

that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.

When it rains, her father said it pours.

Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises.

You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.

The problem is that anchors don't just keep you from floating away. Sometimes, they drag you down.

We are battered and broken, but we're all small miracles.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so. In fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of.

But let's be real. When you've already failed at killing yourself, anything else you might screw up seems minor.

He taught me that if a body is easily crushed, it develops a weapon to prevent that from happening.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

The more you get past pain, the more it gets from coal to diamond.

Magick isn't about getting rid of everything blocking your path.

Either you dissolve into a puddle, or you take the blow on the cheek and force yourself to lift your face again for more.

The worst thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task of starting over.

He would wonder how much a man could take before he reduced himself to nothing. He

I usually avoided looking at my wrist, at my scars, but this time, I focused on them and realized my body was more than something I was trapped in. I saw a strong backbone, a big heart

into a conversation. I am hoping that