Overcoming Quotes - Page 24

• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Men, Light

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• I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  People, Feelings, Detachment

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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• God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Worry, Impossible

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• In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications, you are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

  Bill Bryson

  Morning, Eye, Simple

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• There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Success, Dream, Reality

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• Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Achievement, Challenges

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• Walking and overcoming by faith is not easy. For one thing, the dimension of time constantly constrains our perspective. Likewise, the world steadily tempts us. No wonder we are given instructive words from Jesus about the narrowness and the straightness of the only path available to return home: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). And then he said, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Jesus laid down strict conditions.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Home

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• None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.

  Bell Hooks

  Running, Thinking, Class

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.179, Routledge

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• When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

  Dan Brown

  Challenges, Doubt, Matter

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Pain

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 24, 2014

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• Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Body, Buried, Within You

  Jacquelyn Frank (2012). “Jacob: Number 1 in series”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.

  Rachel Vincent

  Memories, Eye, Heart

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• There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.

  Markus Zusak

  World, Forget You, Moments

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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• The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.

  Garth Stein

  Beautiful, Cheer, Adversity

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

  David Sedaris

  Country, Goal, Understanding

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• What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Wall, Thinking, Noon

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan

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• Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Successful, Desire, Heavenly

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• did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sea, Southern, Brave

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.256, Collector's Library

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• The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Struggle, And Love

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Husband, Revenge, Moving

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• The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Believe, Play, Risk

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• Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in.

  Susane Colasanti

  Being Yourself, Parent, Words Of Wisdom

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• Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!

  Clint Eastwood

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• The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drug, Feelings, Brain

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Names, Long, Soul

  N. Scott Momaday, Matthias Schubnell (1997). “Conversations with N. Scott Momaday”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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