#overcoming

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#changing-ourselves #goals #our-pasts #overcoming-negativity #overcoming-obstacles

We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof.... ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#equality #overcoming-obstacles #status #equality

We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof...." These words, wrung from the very depths of his soul, surprised even Seigen himself. He had not risen in the world merely in order to satisfy his ambition, but in order to repudiate hierarchical society and the fixed class system. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#equality #hierarchy #overcoming-obstacles #purpose #society

There is no illusion greater than fear. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#overcoming-fear #inspirational

The most vibrant of flowers often come from the filthiest of soils. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#overcoming-adversity #zack-w-van #inspirational

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#life #overcoming #problems #life

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. ↗