Quotes About Overcoming

Deep inside is a voice wanting to taunt her, to tell her she is undeserving of it, to not trust it because it won't last, good things never last. Or it tells her she will fuck up and lose everything. But she's gotten better at tuning that voice out.

philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances, is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same!

Father Hewett once told me that a saint is a sinner who keeps getting up.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).

In the world you will have tribulation.

Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.

Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he's a Navy SEAL: He hasn't slept in days, he's all hopped up on Red Bull, and he's liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone "safe.

Well, child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering," Hanneke said mildly. "It belongs to you. But I shall tell you what I do with mine. I grasp it by the small hairs, I cast it to the ground, and I grind it under the heel of my boot. I suggest you learn to do the same.

Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it.

The hardest part of your life is behind you now.

For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane.

I know every inch of fear, from head to toe.

Eventually, all of us will be called upon to do the thing that cannot be done.

I want you to figure out a way to stop that from happening.

As the saying goes, Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. Why would I want to keep my limitations?

Well child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering. It belongs to you. But i shall tell you what i do with mine. I gasp it by the small hairs, i cast it to the ground and i grind it under the heel of my boot. I suggest you learn to do the same

When you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch – there's not a chance.

I noticed that my fear never changed, never delighted, never offered a surprise twist or an unexpected ending. My fear was a song with only one note—only one word, actually—and that word was "STOP!" My fear never had anything more interesting or subtle to offer than that one emphatic word, repeated at full volume on an endless loop: "STOP, STOP, STOP, STOP!" Which

There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.

Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.

A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

All I would like in my life, what I wish for so very much is to someday… become one of those people who is better than the worst thing that happens to her.