Quotes About Overcoming

The idea of throwing away my depression, of having to create a whole personality, a whole way of living and being that did not contain misery as its leitmotif, was daunting.

The thing about fear," said Cadfael, seriously considering, "is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to God, for being able to subdue him.

be ready to be above and beyond the foul even when we're up to our eyes in it.

those who want to beat you down can't succeed unless you give them help!

But if we grow stronger...and rise higher than what's pullin' us down...Yes, rise higher than dirt...that fifty pound weight will lift and you'll be free, free without anybody's by-your-leave. Do something to wash out the sin.

being dragged along crippled over things as if broken-winged

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

Trying not to think about falling, she kept going up.

It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

In the dimly lit basement hall of Saints Peter and Paul's Soup Kitchen, in the back alleys behind the bus station, in the urine-scented wards of the state mental hospital, I saw, firsthand, that it was possible to lose everything and still go on.

I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

Because when you feel physically and mentally low, molehills become mountains, slight set-backs seem like disasters, and the smallest problem tends to be the final straw to break the camel's back.

deep inside she wondered--feared--what it would take to break her.

Allison Gappa Bottke

I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

no pasa nada. Nadie mata a nadie, nadie se suicida, nadie se muere de pena, y nadie llora más de tres días seguidos. A las dos semanas todos vuelven a engordar y a comer con apetito, te lo digo en serio. Si no fuera así, la vida se habría extinguido en este

Self pity is a hard drug.

La autocompasión es una droga muy dura.

Ultimately, overcoming personal censorship is about gaining independence--independence from ignorance!~ Adesiji Rabiu