#overcome

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. ↗

— Carl Jung

#being #deem #experience #happy #ills

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ↗

— John Keats

#consideration #every #great #other #overcomes

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. ↗

— George Foreman

#back #duck #easy #fights #gift

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do. ↗

— Frank Knight

#overcome

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#censored #considerations #dream #dreams #economic

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#any #before #believe #create #happen

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ↗

— Aristotle

#conquers #count #desires #hardest #him

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#better #better idea #faith #fearlessly #force

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#ground #how #hurdles #learning #life