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«A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.»
Author: Christopher Reeve
(Activist, Actor, Film Director)
| Keywords:
endure, finds, hero, individual, Obstacles, ordinary, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, persevere, persevered, perseveres, persevering, spite, strength
«Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.»
Author: Idries Shah
| Keywords:
overwhelm
«A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.»
Author: Jane Smiley
| Keywords:
belief system, controversial, germ, immune, immune system, infection, infections, overwhelm, protected, the system, vulnerable
«I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Conviction,
Wisdom
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About me, conviction, driven, drive in, from nowhere, had, insufficient, knees, My own, nowhere, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, seemed, times, time of day, wisdom
«How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? / Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? / Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.»
«By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
(Author, Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
every day, gradually, Just a, overwhelm, task, The Task
«If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
approach, challenge, defect, failure, immediately, modifies, modify, modifying, overwhelm, overwhelmed, overwhelms, personality, problem, rather
«Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death,
Despair
| Keywords:
cries, dance of death, fury, overwhelm, storms, trot, trots, trotted, Trotting, unawares, unprepared
«Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
combinations, faithless, licentious, overwhelm, perfidy, practiced, wickedness
«If you identify yourselves with the body that you carry about with you, you are inviting sorrow and suffering to overwhelm you instead of the joy and peace which are awaiting to bless you.»
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