#overcoming

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found. ↗

#buddhism #dark-night-of-the-soul #enlightenment #love #meditation

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#coping #difficulties #mountain #mountains #obstacle

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. ↗

— Ray Davis

#inspiration #motivation #overcoming #inspirational

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED! ↗

— Ron Sanders

#christ #christian #christian-living #detective #fruits-of-the-spirit

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#overcoming-obstacles #motivational

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#beloved #christ #gifts #gives #grace

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#silence

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#self-esteem #survival #self-esteem

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. ↗