Quotes About Overcoming

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

As it relates to healing the wounds of trauma, it is a journey from helplessness (which is the essence of trauma) to mastery.

You experience a change in how you see yourself, transitioning from feeling like a victim to someone who has not only survived but has healed.

Traumatic experiences are so powerful that they often affect your entire worldview. It's like wearing glasses that distort your vision.

any mountain climber will tell you it's not about reaching the top: It's about the journey, overcoming doubts, bravely going into the unknown. It's about accepting your constraints without letting them overcome your goals.

He's not burying you, Mallory. He's freeing you. Excavating you from a mountain of heroin and bringing you back to society. And look at you now!

Even though how long the light may last, the sun will always rise up above you

If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The world will run you down and slam a tire over your exploding skull and not even wonder what it had just hit.

Winds of adversity may have blown through your life. Your world may be falling apart. But if you will look closely enough, you'll see the light of God's faithfulness shining through the debris.

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form—or a species—will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

The ego believes that in your resistance lies your strength

Most crawling reptilians, the most earthbound of all creatures, have remained unchanged for millions of years. Some, however, grew feathers and wings and turned into birds, thus defying the force of gravity that had held them for so long. They didn't become better at crawling or walking, but transcended crawling and walking entirely.

To see one's predicament clearly is a first step toward going beyond it.

All life forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve.

Todas las adicciones surgen de una negativa inconsciente a encarar y traspasar el propio dolor. Todas las adicciones empiezan con dolor y terminan con dolor. Cualquiera que sea la sustancia que origine la adicción —alcohol, comida, drogas (legales o ilegales) o una persona—, estás usando algo o a alguien para encubrir tu dolor.

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

You stick a wooden stake through the heart of your failures and they become successes.

There's nothing in this world within arm's-length of possibility that can not be done, when a man must.

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

I tend not to look at the prison wall of life, but to look up at the sky, as it is more beautiful and more spacious. Try