Overcoming Quotes - Page 31

• There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Grief, Suffering

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• We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.

  Tomislav Nikolic

  Country, Responsibility, Decision

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• I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

  Dan Harmon

  Jobs, Stupid, Tvs

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an angel. When the patient begins to convalesce, the physician becomes a mere human. When the physician asks for his fees, he is considered as the devil himself.

  Hendrik Goltzius

  God, Angel, Science

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• With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are also the conquered and the controlled. 'True desires' - erotic, gustatory, olfactory, musical, aesthetic, psychic, & spiritual - are best attained in a context of freedom of self and other in physical proximity & mutual aid. Everything else is at best a sort of representation.

  Hakim Bey

  Spiritual, Self, Psychics

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• The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, Mean

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• The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering...

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attitude, Heart

  "The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality". Book by Dalai Lama, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.

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• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Men, Ties

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• If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Meditation, Way

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• I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

  Albert Schweitzer

  What Matters, Temptation, Healthy

  "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.

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• A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

  Bear Grylls

  Self, Quality, Able

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• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Airplane, Light, Climbing

  Rudolf Arnheim (2009). “The Dynamics of Architectural Form”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim to know what is best for mankind. Wakan Tanka and Grandfather alone know what is best, and this is why, even though I am worried, my attitude is not overcome with fear of the future. I submit always to Wakan Tanka's will. This is not easy, and most people find it impossible, but I have seen the power of Prayer and I have seen God's desires fulfilled. So I pray always that God will give me wisdom to accept his way of doing things.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Prayer, Attitude, Native American

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• The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Opposites, Insecurity, Risk

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• Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

  Romany Malco

  Ignorance, Wrath, Self

  "A Message to Trayvon Martin Sympathizers". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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• But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Yield, Race

  Martin Luther (1848). “The Table Talk Or Familiar Discourse of Martin Luther”, p.352

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• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

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• It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Long, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• If you live on the level of the Body and the Individual, you will get entangled in food, fun and frolic, ease, envy and pride. Forget it, ignore it, overcome it - You will have peace, joy and calm. In the Divine Path, there is no chance of failure; it is the Path of Love.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fun, Pride, Envy

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Nov 18, 2014

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• Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness onto the cosmos by the modern self's own will to power.

  Richard Tarnas

  Self, Mind, Cosmos

  Richard Tarnas (2006). “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View”, p.68, Penguin

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• Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

  Junko Tabei

  Dream, Nature, Travel

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• Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.

  Anton Myrer

  Discipline, Mind, Laziness

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• How do children learn to correct their mistakes?
  By watching how you correct yours.
  How do children learn to overcome their failures?
  By watching how you overcome yours.
  How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness?
  By watching you forgive yourself.

  William Martin

  Children, Mistake, Forgiving

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