Life is made of ups and downs. It is normal to face problems or difficulties. Going through difficult times and overcoming them makes us mature and grow. It is the handling of adversity that makes us strong and allows us to flourish, bring out the best in ourselves.
There is self improvement quotesLike powerful pills that give us the energy to keep going, positive thoughts can help us be great motivators.
In this installment we have selected some phrases of overcoming for those difficult moments.
Phrases to overcome moments difficult
“You don’t know how strong you are until being strong is the only option left to you.” BobMarley.
This phrase refers to our resilient capacity, to fight and overcome obstacles, they are conditions inherent to our human nature.
¨Do not think about the failures of today, but about the success that can come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.¨.
This phrase is attributed to Helen Keller, the first deafblind woman, university student and writer. She could have stayed to cry over herself and yet she overcame her physical limitations and overcame the worst of the forecasts, thanks to her tenacity and the humility of letting herself be helped.
¨Turn your wall into a step¨.
Rainer María Rilke was a universal poet, in his adolescence he was forced by his father to be a soldier, he had a conflictive relationship with his mother and yet he fulfilled his dream of being a poet. Go! Let nothing stop you is what that phrase expresses.
“Most people spend more time and energy dodging problems than trying to solve them.”
This phrase by Henry Ford alludes to the tendency of people to use denial as a defense mechanism, does that solve the situation? Evasion does not avoid pain, sometimes it barely manages to postpone it.
Phrases of pain and loss
¨The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the mourning, the closer God is¨
(Fyodor Dostoevsky)
That people allow us to feel the pain, devastated by a loss, not only humanizes us, it also gives us such strength and we learn to value life.
¨Only people capable of loving intensely can suffer great pain, but this same need to love serves to counteract their duels¨ …
I interpret it as inviting us to love life, despite its excesses. It is that capacity to love that rescues us from pain. It is the positive emotion that prevails.
“Grief is a good thing. It is the way to go through the transitions of life¨. Rick Warren.
This phrase refers to assuming grief as a necessary and inevitable phase in the face of loss. It is finding a meaning to that pain we feel. That look inward in the sadness that memories bring, gives us conformity and allows acceptance.
for reflection: All the phrases allude to the fact that, although it is true that we go through difficult circumstances, bad things can and do happen to people, there is a space between what happens to you and how you accept it, that space is within you and you can call inner strength or will, the truth is that the difference in how to act, with firmness and hope, do not look for it outside, it is within you.