“Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.” HeartWholeLightPainSpiritualJoyTurnsFunQualityDespairConcernedOvercomingDefeatCombinationHaving FunElectricVitalityTurn-onInseparableElectric Light Book:The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ... Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...
“I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.” BelieveHardPainSufferingSpeakI BelieveMoneyDefeatRuinsTendernessRuinedPain And Suffering Author:Agnes Smedley
“You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.” PainHonestyBraveryDefeatIntuitionTruest Author:John Cassavetes
“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.” SelfPainWorshipAll ThingsDefeatSaintTreasureDenialScholarSelf-denial Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.” KnowsPainActorsHurtMillionsEmotionalWestDefeatIt HurtsEmotional PainWild WestWild Wild West Author:Will Smith
“There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.” GivingHumansHappensPainPastFacesFoundWinningDifferencesHuman BeingsVictoryBattleLimitsLosingNegativeLuckInstinctDefeatAthleteOpponentsWinning And LosingYou Can Win Author:Jesse Owens