Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with… — Ronald E. Poelman Copy Share Image
And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked… — Hendrik Goltzius Copy Share Image
Your prosperity will grow to the extent that you do. Your feeling of prosperity may require that you overcome the fear of… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic.… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever… — Devon Aoki Copy Share Image
You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This is the best message that I have been responsibly for it. This will help you, A, find your identity. Because you… — Paula White Copy Share Image
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in… — Terry Fox Copy Share Image
We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Early in life, I decided that I would not be overcome by events. My philosophy has been that regardless of the circumstances,… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and… — Layne Beachley Copy Share Image
“When I was desperate to escape the pain and damage of my life, He told me to walk forward and heal. He… — Faith Living Copy Share Image
It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined.… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image