Quotes About Overcoming

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

Shit works out.

If you fall in darkness, there will be light. If your fall enter depression, there is some sort of happiness. Fall but get up. Weak but be strong. Life is just beginning

To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!

When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

It got to a point of where it was ruining my health and I just hated it. I hated doing it and I couldn't stop without some kind of help to get the longing for it out of my system.

I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.

It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

Confront your fears. Find their root. Educate yourself. Reach out for help. Defeat your fears or they will defeat you. Never give up.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Stand up and walk out of your history