Quotes About Overcoming

Mark Billingham

You can be successful even when you're getting pounded.

Galadriel gives each of the companions a gift before they leave Lothlorien, but it may be that her greatest and most perilous gift was given upon their first meeting. Temptation, succesfully overcome, strengthens the will, but succumbing to temptation, even in thought, leads to evil

Getting hung up on 'how' is just the stupid part of your brain throwing a tantrum because it feels left out.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #16: WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF YOUR ROPE, DON'T HANG AROUND.

That would be like saying, "I can't fix this." Being stuck forever with no way out is a very scary feeling.

Most breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

If you achieve triunal agility, you become adaptable and resilient. As a result, you can deal with whatever life throws at you—even big upsets and tragedies. Occasionally you'll slide into crazy when an upset causes your three brains to temporarily misalign, but you won't live there permanently.

The Devil takes no holiday; he never rests. If beaten, he rises again. If he cannot enter in front, he steals in the rear. If he cannot enter at the rear, he breaks through the roof or enters by tunneling under the threshold. He labors until he is in. He uses great cunning and many a plan. When one miscarries, he has another at hand and continues in his attempts until he wins. MARTIN LUTHER

GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU STUPID CRIPPLE!

Nietzsche tells us: be strong. What does not kill me makes me stronger.

realizes a huge metal tray cart has overturned. The floor is piled with plastic trays and debris. The moment of shock evaporates. People help the cafeteria workers pull the cart upright and slide trays back into the racks. Last night's shotgun blast tramples through Adrian's thoughts. The

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Try to be grateful for every setback or tragedy, because by living through them, you become stronger.

Mark T. Sullivan

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.

Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: 'repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life' list, which currently contained fainting and my ability to find trouble.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?