Quotes About Overcoming

Katherine Briggs

Patricia Briggs

Haven't you learned by now that it's always one thing after another? Being busy is no excuse. Everyone's busy.

she is bent under the weight of her burden

Simply to end ure," she says, "is to triumph.

you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people

If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

You are indestructible .J For some reason I felt light-headed when I finished writing and looked up at her, like I'd stood up too fast or the oxygen had left my brain. Oh pulled her arm back, looked thoughtfully at the words, and replied, "It's upside down, but I like it. You done good, Jacob.

Confrontation, which is often the one thing victims want to avoid most, is inevitable. Victims will have to confront their own fears, senses of obligation, and feelings of guilt. Likewise, they are going to have to confront the blackmailer. While these are daunting tasks, victims must assert themselves in order to break the cycle.

Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.

I had hit bottom, and my only recourse was to push off hard with my heel to rise back to the surface.

Don't let it faze you, kid. I've fallen into my share of black holes, too...

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

And at first it's okay, you know, not perfect, but okay, and you get used to it. Then it gets a little worse, and you get used to that, too. Then one day, you wake up and you don't have the first freakin' clue how it got that bad.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

And he also knew he was going to get through it. It would be terrible. It would be beyond terrible. But he'd survive.

No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?

There's more than this, Sethy," Gudmund said. "This sucks beyond belief, but there's more. We just have to get there.

Upset isn't the same as the world falling apart.

I think that maybe everybody falls" I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don´t think that´s the asking"... "I think the asking is whether we get back up again

He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom that awaited. He was here. He had made it this far. There was so very little distance left to go, and he was the one who had brought himself here. It was almost over. He was almost there. He had never, not once in his life, felt this powerful.

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and my thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my Noise like whispers of the truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.