Overcoming Quotes - Page 26

• Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Ignorance, Inexperience, Prejudice

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• Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

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• As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

  Jules Verne

  Ferguson, Tone, Serious

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Five Weeks In A Balloon / Cinq semaines en ballon (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.13, Jules Verne

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• Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and the law of grace. In our effort to combat legalism we land ourselves in the worst kind of legalism. The only way of overcoming this legalism is by real obedience to Christ when he calls us to follow him; for in Jesus the law is at once fulfilled and cancelled.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where you’ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important. Put those items in the bag and they’ll help you find your strength.’ ‘I’m not sure if that’s going to help much.’ Unless I put a brick in it and nail Brandy between the eyes.

  Jana Oliver

  Mean, Eye, Important

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.207, Pan Macmillan

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• ...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

  Dave Barry

  Light, Long, Darkness

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• At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

  André Aciman

  Grief, Loss, Bitter

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.74, Macmillan

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• I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

  Bill Bryson

  Father, Dawn, Nostalgia

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.12, VNR AG

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• These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Lds, Faithful

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• She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

  Nora Roberts

  Eye, Like Love, Tragedy

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• Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Funny Relationship

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May (p. 313), 1969.

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• Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Life And Death, Life Is

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

  Robert Burton

  Melancholy

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• And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling star, flame, ice. It's pure as water from a snow-fed mountain spring. This is what you dream a kiss to be. To have a kiss just like this each and every day! How satisfying life would be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Stars, Spring

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• The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

  Janette Rallison

  Keys, Godmother, Problem

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• Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Sacrifice, Light

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• If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Weakness, May, Moments

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Boys, Chinese, Mind

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.31, Penguin

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• Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Grief, Choices, Matter

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.100, Macmillan

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• I want to live with all of my memories, even if they’re sad memories. I believe that if I stay strong, someday I’ll overcome the pain, and then I’ll be glad that I have those memories. I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Stay Strong, Pain, Memories

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• Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Guilt

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.875, Macmillan

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• There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah, a heart made fullmetal.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Strong, Pain, Heart

  "Fictional character: Edward". "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", 2009-2010.

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• The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Party, Ignorance, Gay

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• I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Care, Sacred

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.251, Penguin

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• To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle

  Yuu Watase

  Believe, Battle, Obstacles

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