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“All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.”

Way Humans May Seems Honest Activity Prove Overcoming Perseverance Determined Thrown Resolution Steady Advancement Zeal Impediments

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.”

Way Needs Soul States Motivational Creative Drug Activity Ultimate Overcoming Unions Various Crush Conformity Alcoholism Separateness Overwork Interpersonal

Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.”

Inspirational Mean Action Activity Overcoming Adversity Overcoming Adversity Adversity And Character

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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.”

Helping Evil Activity Overcoming Boredom Spheres Remedy

Book:Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

Source: Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs

“The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.”

Looks Persons Shows Feelings Emotion Brain Drug Activity Areas Overcoming Active Guts Stimulus Coke Abusers Nucleus Gut Feelings Deep Emotions

Book:House Rules: A Novel

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”

Men Way Humans Ideas Death Animal Destiny Activity Overcoming Finals Human Activity Human Animal Fatality

Book:The Denial of Death

Source: The Denial of Death