Quotes About Overcoming

One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement is ruined anyway that someone decides maybe it isn't a sidewalk at all, but a flower garden. So please, for the love of gender--go bloom.

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself. That

You may be carrying around a sackful of stinking garbage. Either you can smear yourself with it and get terribly miserable, or you can make good manure out of it and create a wonderful garden.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.

What had killed them became the air that they breathed. Perhaps this ability that life has to turn things to its advantage doesn't mean much to you. But let me tell you that, in my world, it has meant a lot.

Our actions may be impeded... But there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impeding to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. 21.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. What's in my thoughts at this moment? Fear? Jealousy? Desire? Feelings like that?

Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

35. We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it—turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself—so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself.

Uma pequena chama seria facilmente extinguida pela ventania do destino, mas quando um fogaréu se torna forte, é capaz de queimar tudo o que lhe atravessa o caminho, consumindo os acasos e se elevando cada vez mais alto em direção ao céu.

What obstacles and impediments soever she meeteth within her way, she must not violently, and by way of an impetuous onset light upon them; neither must she fall down; but she must stand, and give light unto that which doth admit of it. For as for that which doth not, it is its own fault and loss, if it bereave itself of her light.

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Now hath pain given thee the foil; thy courage hath failed thee.

Jos jokin tuntuu sinusta vaikealta, niin älä ajattele, että ihminen ei voi sitä kestää. Jos sen sijaan jokin on mahdollista ihmisen suorittaa, niin arvele voivasi itsekin siitä selviytyä.

For by these the mind doth turn and convert any impediment whatsoever, to be her aim and purpose. So that what before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet

The obstacle is the way.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.