Over You Quotes - Page 39

• Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Hard Times, Past

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• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Reading, Light

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012

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• Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

  Maureen Johnson

  Hurt, Snakes, Giving

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.161, Penguin

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• Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

  Nalini Singh

  People, Emotion, Reason

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• If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

  Isaac Asimov

  Growing Up, Vacation, Cells

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

  Inga Muscio

  Heart, Animal, Hair

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• I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Regret, School

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• When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Weed, Flower, Heart

  Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his bicep... and chest... and tattoo. Never thought the sun could be so... sexy. Wow. This was awkward. "You running over me, me almost running over you?" Cam elaborated. "It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

  J. Lynn

  Tattoo, Sexy, Running

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• Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me.

  Ann Hood

  Grief, Laughing, Making Love

  Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Reign, Consent

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• By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Hope, Imagination

  Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Bullying, Kids

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

  Picabo Street

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

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• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  Og Mandino

  Character, Self, Brain

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Trying, Looks

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• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

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• If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Pain, Acceptance

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• Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Women, Priorities, Never Forget

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.

  Lewis Black

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

  George Carlin

  Happiness, Fun, Trying

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• A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

  Barbra Streisand

  Trust, Interesting, Way

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• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  Saadi

  Wise, Ignorance, Order

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.155, Innovations and Information

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• I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Athlete, Long Ago

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Godly, Shoulders, Spend Time

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