Quotes About Overcoming

Finally, positive visualization can be a powerful adjunct to thought-substitution. Some survivors gradually learn to short-circuit the fear-mongering processes of the critic by invoking images of past successes and accomplishments, as well as picturing safe places, loving friends or comforting memories.

One common sign of being flashed-back is that we feel small, helpless, and hopeless.

Experiencing one's own inadequacies and still going on in spite of them are two of the greatest achievements of adulthood.

Although humans rarely die from trauma, if we do not resolve it, our lives can be severely diminished by its effects. Some people have even described this situation as a "living death.

I found that, if given appropriate guidance, human beings can and do shake off the effects of overwhelming events and return to their lives using exactly the same procedures that animals use.

Some things must be dealt with at the roots. Trauma is one of these things.

who have been traumatized, this can be a monumental leap of faith, but we can recover from trauma; indeed, my experience assisting others to heal from trauma has shown me this recovery is innate.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

We're going to need a bigger boat.

there is always hope; some people always do better than the numbers.

In the school of life experience, setbacks show us where we need to do better. We can steer clear of similar challenges in the future, or we can redouble our efforts to master them, broadening our capacities and expertise.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. —Bob Marley

They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!

I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.

There are mornings when it feels as if you rise up to the surface through a mud bath. With your feet stuck in a block of cement. When you know that you've expired in the night and have nothing to be happy about except the fact that at least you've already died so they can't transplant your lifeless organs.

The best form of revenge is success

When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacobís hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ëThe people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.í”

You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

When Zebah and Zalmunna fled, Gideon pursued and captured these two kings of Midian, routing their entire army.