Overcoming Quotes - Page 21

• Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

  Joe Wright

  Sweet, Dark, Stories

  Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. March 22, 2011.

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• To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Writing, Mind, Needs

  "Why Businesses Need to Reshape Society" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2013.

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• In the strength of the Lord we can do and endure and overcome all things.

  David A. Bednar

  Lord, Endure, All Things

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• The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the Atonement provides help for us to overcome and avoid bad and to do and become good. Help from the Savior is available for the entire journey of mortality - from bad to good to better and to change our very nature.

  David A. Bednar

  Journey, Becoming, Helping

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• I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

  Felicia Day

  Passion, People, Fans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Race, Challenges, Protagonists

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• The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Reality, Faces, Protection

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• He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

  Julian of Norwich

  Said

  Julian of Norwich (2007). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.141, Cosimo, Inc.

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• she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

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• If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

  Richard Bach

  Friendship, Thinking, Space

  "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". Book by Richard Bach, 1970.

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• Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hate, Believe, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.164, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• And behind it lies not blind chance but a principle that works to help us understand, a thousand "coincidences" and friends come to show us the way when the problem seems too hard to solve alone. Problems for overcoming. Freedom for proving. And, as long as we believe in our dream, nothing by chance.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.

  Richard Bach

  Struggle, Artist, Reality

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• We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Jesus, Pain, Thinking

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• Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

  Frank Peretti

  Doors, Want, Monsters

  Frank E. Peretti (2011). “The Oath”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life Is, Again And Again

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• Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Lying, Writing

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Galileo”, p.133, Grove Press

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• I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

  Yann Martel

  Brother, Children, Moving

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• Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grateful, Adversity, Hatred

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Believe, Evil

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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• here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Heart, Here And There, Favelas

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.54, South End Press

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• Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

  Marguerite Duras

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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• We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)

  Pema Chodron

  Grief, Fall, Healing

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read about our suffocated generation, We are a hopeless case. We are as worthless as a water-melon rind. Dont read about us, Dont ape us, Dont accept us, Dont accept our ideas, We are a nation of crooks and jugglers. Arab children, Spring rain, Corn ears of the future, You are the generation That will overcome defeat.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Children, Spring, Rain

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  Preface to the second edition of "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" by Kenneth Rexroth, 1953.

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