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“A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.”

Heart Mother Love Is Weakness Weak Overcoming Motherhood

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.”

Stills Able Mother One Thing Hero Overcoming Adversity Mma Things In Life Overcoming Adversity My Hero True Strength

Author:Rashad Evans

“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!”

Mind Two Mother Can Do Struggle Saws Lessons Overcoming Grandmother Hardship Invaluable Amazing Woman

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph encourages new growth in his parents. In this sense a child is parent to his mother and father.”

Heart Children Mother Next Father Parent Growth Challenges Overcoming Triumph Heartbeat Mother And Father Children And Parents Hopefulness New Growth

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most deeply held beliefs. To have such an anchor means being committed to a specific community. The only way Obama can overcome his sense of detachment and resolve his mother's dilemma is through a commitment to Christianity.”

Way Mean Mother Belief Left Community Christianity Commitment Overcoming Committed Resolve Detachment Respectful Anchors Dilemma

Author:Simon Critchley

“The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.”

Years Bigs Mother Expectations Stones Overcoming Towns Hardest Gaps Coal Hardest Thing Virginia Nineteen Mining Slim Miners Coal Miners Coal Mining

Author:Thomas Jones

“I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.”

Thinking Life Is Mother Overcoming Cancer Illness Obstacles Passing Hardest Passings

Author:Edwina Findley

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.”

“And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.”

World Giving Trying Helping Mother Universe Courses Justice Overcoming Blind Intention Holes Rationality Good Intentions Mindless Plugs Power To Change Misplaced

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father

“The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.”

“The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines brightest with her child in her arms, the father when he forgives his wandering son, and the artist when he or she is drawing attention to grace, by showing the pinprick of light overcoming the darkness in the painting, or the story, or the song. The world knows darkness. Christ came into the world to show us light. I have seen it, have been blinded by it, invaded by it. I will tell its story.”

“Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.”

World Heart May Self Pain Spiritual Joy Mother Certain Spirituality Overcoming Pity Carrie Bitterness Cosmic Magnitude Self Pity

Author:Vilayat Inayat Khan