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• The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

  Rollo May

  Struggle, Creative, Arise

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Lying, Past

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• Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

  Og Mandino

  Never Quit, Quitting, Occasional

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.60, Bantam

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• Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silent, Abandon, Witness

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• He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Struggle, Perfect

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• Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  Michel Foucault

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Hero, Suffering, Moments

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Satan tries to limit your praying because he knows your praying will limit him.

  Rick Warren

  Trying, Praying, Satan

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 28, 2012

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• Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well.

  Ben Greenhalgh

  Past, Territory, Want

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• In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.

  Jim Dietz

  Hard Work, Thinking, Race

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• Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

  Shawn Achor

  Creative, Waiting, Brain

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• Birth
  is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth
  stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching
  of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
  The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of
  inner trust.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Pregnancy, Challenges, Birth

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• When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman does that, when she destroys the life of her unborn child, then we have arrived at the limit. The level cannot go higher regarding evil.

  Jim Caviezel

  Mother, Children, Son

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• If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

  Rand Paul

  Home, Government, Term Limits

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Feb 13, 2013

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• When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

  Marianne Williamson

  Falling In Love, Possibility, Force

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Oct 19, 2015

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• The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Blessed, Seasons Of Life, Knows

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• I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

  Anne Hathaway

  Fighting, Rights, Long

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• A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Government, Waiting

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

  Sol Hurok

  Sky, Roof Over Your Head, Ifs

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• Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities. You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Have Faith, Possibility

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• The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reflection, Terrible Events, Quests

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.55, City Lights Books

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• There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Economy, Harm

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Running, Husband, Live Life

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. Thirdly: Understanding well. Fourthly: Memorising. Fifthly: Teaching. Sixthly- and it is its fruit: Acting upon the knowledge and keeping to its limits.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Teaching, Asking Questions, Understanding

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