Quotes About Overcome

We now know that in life no obstacle can block, it can only impede; that tiredness is an incident not a finality.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

Solo después del desastre podemos resucitar.

The mind is less precarious than we think it is, Nate. Often, I believe it is our fear of losing it that's more dangerous than actually losing it, if you'll follow my logic. The fear of a thing is quite often worse than the thing we fear

Control lost.

Occupavi te, inquit, fortuna, atque cepi omnesque aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me aspirare non posses. § Tusculan Disputations - Book V.

Clay Susan Griffith

Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.

My feet are killing me. I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally.

My first fight made me cockeyed," he said, "and my farewell fight set my eyes right again, so trust me when I say this sport will break you down to make you better, and that's a fact.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Wooten, for any reason, you would have a difficult time even bringing

Thus the illusions some of us still held were destroyed one by one, and then, quite unexpectedly, most of us were overcome by a grim sense of humor. We knew that we had nothing to lose except our so ridiculously naked lives.

man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

The fear of sleeplessness12 results in a hyper-intention to fall asleep, which, in turn, incapacitates the patient to do so. To overcome this particular fear, I usually advise the patient not to try to sleep but rather to try to do just the opposite, that is, to stay awake as long as possible.

vae victis"—woe to the vanquished.

And to make him aware of this meaning can contribute much to his ability to overcome his neurosis.

but even one such example is sufficient proof that man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

The Americans are people of extremes, prone to fits of rage and self-destructiveness, but also in possession of an inner strength that no one in history has been able to overcome.

Solve metus

Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.

Love triumphs over all.

flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.