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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
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The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil 
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
- W. Clement Stone
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The softest things in the world overcome
the hardest things in the world.
- Lao Tzu
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The most intense conflicts, if overcome,
leave behind a sense of security and calm
that is not easily disturbed.
It is just these intense conflicts
and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results.
- Carl Jung
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Blessings flow toward gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
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