"Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail."
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"It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome."
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"I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!"
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"The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them."
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"Great determination can overcome most odds."
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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
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"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."
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"What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of"
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"Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better"
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"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
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"Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations"
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"Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome."
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"The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals."
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"The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger."
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"But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me."
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"Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path."
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"Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome."
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"One completely overcomes only what one assimilates."
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"I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them."
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"We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes."
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