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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

Let a man overcome anger by love.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Literature is the best way to overcome death.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.

Make love your weapon to overcome any evil

Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

Many people thought that riding for a new team and racing on a brand new bike would be a lot to overcome.

Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'

My major concern about leaving enhancement to the marketplace is that then the rich will be able to buy themselves genetically superior children and the poor will not - sharpening the class divisions we have now. That problem could be overcome if, genetic enhancement were available to all, subsidized by the state - and that would, over time, have benefits for society as well.

Movement overcomes cold.

Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger.

My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will they be going fast enough to overcome the initiatives of the bureaucracies & the fears operative in those bureaucracies? It's a very touch & go question.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longer any transcendental guarantor, a positive end of time as ultimate reconciliation or redemption, ensuring a pay-off for this investment? Nietzsche's solution - his attempted overcoming of nihilism - consists in affirming the senselessness of becoming as such - all becoming, without reservation or discrimination.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.