Quotes about Overcoming

Joseph's pit came in the form of a cistern. Maybe yours came in the form of a diagnosis, a foster home, or a traumatic injury. Joseph

No problem is unsolvable. No life is irredeemable. No one's fate is sealed. No one is unloved or unlovable.

How we handle our tough times stay with us a long time. (P68)

Life pulls us down.

It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny.

So did yours. Joseph's pit came in the form of a cistern. Maybe yours came in the form of a diagnosis, a foster home, or a traumatic injury. Joseph was thrown in a hole and despised. And you? Thrown in an unemployment line and forgotten. Thrown into a divorce and abandoned, into a bed and abused. The pit. A kind of death, waterless and austere. Some people never recover. Life is reduced to one quest: get out and never be hurt again. Not simply done. Pits have no easy exits.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

There was a possibility that God really did love me, me Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the gravity and grandeur of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything. For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority?

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything. For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority?