Overcoming Quotes

“Even when she's dethroned by hardship, she still wears the sun as a crown.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Everyone smiles in the same language,
Happiness knows no frontiers, no age.
No difference thar makes us feel apart
if a smile can win even a broken heart.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“You have to overcome the fear and anger inside you,” the boy named Crow says. “Let a bright light shine in and melt the coldness in your heart. That’s what being tough is all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.”
― Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom

“If you want to heal a broken heart,
Be smart! That's all an ancient art.
Start by loving the very small parts
That were left there shattered apart.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“She could do this. She was stronger now. This was her chance to prove it.”
― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven

“Often there's a secret courage hidden in the pocket of our deepest fears saying, “Bring it on, motherfucker”.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“sometimes it’s not about trying to fix something that’s broken. Sometimes it’s about starting again and building something new. Something better”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.”
― Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom

“God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I am a wife, mother, and friend, and soon to be grandmother, I still feel, understand, and am worthy of the love and joy in those relationships. I am still an active participant in society. My brain no longer works well, but I use my ears for unconditional listening, my shoulders for crying on, and my arms for hugging others with dementia. Through an early stage support group...by talking to you today, I am helping others with dementia live better with dementia. I am not someone dying. I am someone living with Alzheimer's. I want to do that as well as I possibly can.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

“Nothing leaves you more vulnerable to your past than the illusion that you've dealt with it.”
― John Verdon, Wolf Lake

“Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Maybe not today, Maybe not tomorrow. But somewhere down the line, there has to be a light.”
― Dana Johnson

“Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Soldier, Ask Not

“Not all scars show, not all wounds heal,
But, in time, you´ll turn head over heels.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities.”
― Helen Keller, My Religion

“Our ultimate goal should to be to become adept at overcoming the constraints of daily life. However, to achieve this we will need to learn how to be fully in touch with our sensual side at all times.”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“Encouragers turn mountains into molehills. Discouragers turn molehills into mountains.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.”
― Talena Winters, Finding Heaven

“The​ ​Gospels​ ​are​ ​full​ ​of​ ​testimonies​ ​of​ ​God’s​ ​power​ ​from​ ​eyewitnesses​ ​who​ ​saw​ ​Jesus heal​ ​the​ ​sick​ ​and​ ​raise​ ​the​ ​dead.​ ​​ ​When​ ​the​ ​blind​ ​man​ ​received​ ​sight,​ ​he​ ​went​ ​and​ ​told​ ​others. When​ ​the​ ​Samaritan​ ​woman​ ​received​ ​living​ ​water​ ​from​ ​Jesus,​ ​she​ ​went​ ​back​ ​to​ ​tell​ ​what happened​ ​to​ ​her,​ ​and​ ​“many​ ​of​ ​the​ ​Samaritans​ ​from​ ​that​ ​town​ ​believed​ ​in​ ​Him​ ​because​ ​of​ ​the woman’s​ ​testimony”​ ​(John​ ​4:39).​ ​​ ​Revelation​ ​12:11​ ​says​ ​we​ ​overcome​ ​the​ ​evil​ ​one​ ​by​ ​the​ ​word of​ ​our​ ​testimony.​ ​​ ​When​ ​the​ ​orphans​ ​​tell​,​ ​they​ ​experience​ ​God’s​ ​power​ ​at​ ​work​ ​in​ ​them;​ ​when others​ ​​hear​,​ ​their​ ​faith​ ​is​ ​strengthened.​ ​​ ​When​ ​we​ ​gather​ ​to​ ​share​ ​our​ ​stories,​ ​I​ ​know​ ​the​ ​devil runs​ ​out​ ​the​ ​door​ ​when​ ​the​ ​smallest,​ ​weakest​ ​orphan​ ​stands​ ​up​ ​to​ ​attest​ ​to​ ​the​ ​goodness​ ​of God.​ ​(p178)”
― Eric Irivuzumugabe, My Father, Maker of the Trees: How I Survived the Rwandan Genocide

“Death is a beautiful woman, with wings and one breast almost bare; or is that Victory? I can’t remember.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Part of moving forward often involves stumbling a few steps back.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“God does not give us overcoming life— He gives us life as we overcome.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Not that he had come anywhere near attaining her skill at managing hope. She could balance it like a juggler -- let it soar and curb it and pass it from hand to hand. She could spin hope and spin herself through it. Forget mere juggling; she was a veritable trapeze artist with this hope thing.”
― Sonali Dev, A Distant Heart

“Do not believe in fear.”
― Rachel L. Schade, Forsaken Kingdom

“When you have the Stellah Mupanduki healing, moulding, cleansing and protecting books breathed by the Holy Spirit of a Sovereign God; your way of thinking and speaking changes because you will start to feel well and you regain strength as you read. You will know you will be very fine, and you will not worry too much because you will know that you will not die but live and bless your family with your presence and give them peace…yeah, be with your family in Christ. You will know that your days are not numbered in short, you will know and understand that you have longevity, that in Christ, you will live long. So talk about your life and not death whatever you are going through or whatever you perceive to be true in your own human intelligence. Move away from nodding to death and stop welcoming the spirit of death. Keep it away from your lipsl, when you speak, talk about about your life as progressing in the normal way, in the name of Jesus Christ…”
― Stellah Mupanduki, Know Yee Are Little Kings: Above and Not Beneath

“Some days are sweetened with pure, but fleeting joy. Just keep keeping on.
Some days consist of a kind of sorrow that tries to break you. Just keep keeping on.
Some days are filled with bright, warm light that clearly shows the path to follow. Just keep keeping on.
Some days are filled with calm and peace. Just keep keeping on.
Some days are filled with a violent commotion that does its best to disrupt our innermost harmony. Just keep keeping on.
Some days we must just take a rest, until we can once again, keep keeping on.
Some days are filled with hope and faith and the recognition of a journey we wouldn't trade for anything. And so we keep keeping on.”
― Connie Kerbs

“Wealth comes and goes, Rahul. Coming from adversity and overcoming it makes you better not worse than those who never have to.”
― Sonali Dev, A Distant Heart