“Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.” MenWorldNeedsShowsPainJoySufferingFeltSituationForeverGreaterHolyMen And WomenAngelOvercomingLongingTreasureOften IsPresent Situation Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.” IfsNeedsGivingFeelsChildrenMomentsStoriesFeltSkillsNegativeOvercomingOur ChildrenYour ChildrenHardship Author:Bruce Feiler
“I felt that if others can overcome incredible challenges to be in shape, why would my story be any different?” IfsDifferentStoriesFeltChallengesShapesOvercomingIncredibles Author:Maria Kang
“We can use music as a tool to overcome things. It was a beautiful age and realization for me, an awakening. I felt like my eyes were opened. It was like, you mean to tell me that I have the opportunity when I'm bottling stuff up, wanting to smash windows and breaking down walls, I can put that energy into a song and wake up the next day with that weight lifted?” MeanI CanUseEyeAgeBeautifulSongNextOpportunityEnergyFeltStuffLike YouWallToolsWindowOvercomingWeightWake UpAwakeningRealizationNext DayBreaking Down Author:Chuck Ragan
“Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way, but it happened on my way - when I get close to these people, just by the simple intervention of translation I can actually reach them and ask them something, and their reaction is as I expected. I see that the relationship goes so smoothly, and I realize that cultural languages and specificities are nothing but simple obstacles that you can easily overcome. It's obvious that human beings are the same wherever they are.” PeopleWayFeelsHumansI CanJoySufferingAsksLanguageFeltRealizingHuman BeingsSimpleHappenedProveOvercomingObviousObstaclesExpectedReactionsMy WayInterventionTranslationsSpecificity Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.” PeopleKnowsWorldReasonStoriesRealityEarthArtistHumanityUniverseCoursesFeltStruggleKnowingPaintingHatredOvercomingManipulationOur WorldFadesSunrisePower Struggle Author:Richard Bach
“Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.” TryingFirstsMeanChildrenFeltCausesParentNaturalDarknessAliveDyingBrotherOvercomingDiedStrongerMillsFlourUnfeelingFear Of Dying Book:Everything Is Illuminated Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.” WayFeelsDoeSelfYoungFeltChallengesConfidenceSucceedOvercomingBoundsSelf ConfidenceMoodHardestTriumphUselessDependentSmallestInsecureWorthlessSetbackUnattractiveOverconfident Book:The Reader Source: The Reader
“I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.” TryingMindHeartStillsMomentsEyeFeltMemoriesWonderfulFrontsMy HeartTasteOvercomingBreathsLipsObstaclesSmellUselessSensitiveThat MomentJaceDeep BreathAftershock Author:Rachel Vincent
“...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.” NeedsFirstsHardDoneScienceCertainFeltHard WorkDegreesOvercomingDifficultyLuckRemainsFortuneStartingExperimentsHypothesisGood FortuneConceiving Author:Christiaan Huygens
“When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.” BelieveLittlesPastGamesI BelieveFeltAbilityPlayerHappenedTeamTalentFiguresCoupleAchievementPicksSeasonsOvercomingSoccerRemarkablePaceMatesOver The PastPhenomenalTeam Mate Author:Cristiano Ronaldo
“I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.” StatesRunningPassionGamesFeltSportsEuropeOvercomingObstaclesSoccerHeadacheThe Love Of The Game Author:Hope Solo
“And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.” WorldFeelingsHateGivenFeltClearConditionsOvercomingHistoricalInjusticeInequalityGood Words Author:Ulrich Beck
“This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.” SoulFeltChristPrayerMorningGainsWeakOvercomingWoodsNineKneesHardshipMissionaryAnguish Author:David Brainerd
“I had an overwhelming experience of the Lord's presence. I felt so powerfully overcome by the nearness of the Holy Spirit that I had to ask the Lord to draw back lest He kill me. It was so glorious that I couldn't stand more than a small portion of it.” SpiritAsksFeltLordHolyDrawsOvercomingHoly SpiritGloriousOverwhelmingPortionsKill Me Author:Mordecai Ham