Quotes about Overcoming

May turns to me with purpose, stretches intimately close as if she plans to impart a secret. "A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her OWN music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

Its not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

There is one thing Satan cannot stand and that is to be ignored and slighted. He lives on attention and dies of neglect.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I knew well enough that one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

If you hear a voice within you say ,you cannot paint,' then by all means paint. And that voice will be silenced.

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.