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#1

“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

tags: experts, impossibilities, limitations, overcoming-obstacles

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#2

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

tags: motivational, overcoming-obstacles

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#3

“Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm”
― Sun Tzu

tags: overcoming-obstacles

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#4

“I am more than my scars.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

tags: moving-on, overcoming-adversity, overcoming-fear, overcoming-obstacles, self-love

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#5

“Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!”
― Jo Franz

tags: college, disbilities, high-school, inspirational, ms, overcoming-obstacles

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#6

“The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: accountability, adversity, compel, drive, endure, failure, hardship, overcoming, overcoming-obstacles, pressure, rebirth, slacking, surpassing, surpassing-yourself, sustainability

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#7

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.”
― Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

tags: inspirational, language, language-learning, overcoming-obstacles

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#8

“Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

tags: finishing, inspirational-quotes, motivational-quotes, overcoming-challenges, overcoming-fear, overcoming-negativity, overcoming-obstacles, perserverance, smile, smiling, stick-to-itiveness, sticking-it-out, success-quotes, tags-determination

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#9

“There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
― Hyrum Smith

tags: destiny, inspirational, overcoming-obstacles, resolution, struggles

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#10

“God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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#11

“You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
So many live on and want nothing
And are raised to the rank of prince
By the slippery ease of their light judgments
But what you love to see are faces
that do work and feel thirst.
You love most of all those who need you
as they need a crowbar or a hoe.
You have not grown old, and it is not too late
To dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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#12

“I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: reflection, understanding

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#13

“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: nature, poetry

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#14

“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

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#15

“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: being, circles, life, orbits

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#16

“I live my life in widening circle
That reach out across the world.
I may not ever complete the last one,
But I give myself to it.

I circle around God, that primordial tower.
I have been circling for thousands of years,
And I still don't know: am I a falcon,
A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: god, meaning, purpose

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#17

“You, God, who live next door--

If at times, through the long night, I trouble you
with my urgent knocking--
this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom.
I know you're all alone in that room.
If you should be thirsty, there's no one
to get you a glass of water.
I wait listening, always. Just give me a sign!
I'm right here...

Sen komşu tanrı,
Uzun geceler bazen,
Kapına vura vura uyandırıyorsam seni
Solumanı seyrek duyduğumdandır...
Bilirim, yalnızsın odanda.
Sana birşey gerekse kimse yok,
Bir yudum su versin aradığında.
Hep dinlerim, yeter ki bir ses edin,
Öyle yakınım sana...”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: god, love, rilke

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#18

“I want to unfold.
I don’t want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded,
there I am a lie.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

tags: poetry, self

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#19

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

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#20

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

tags: 1926

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#21

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

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#22

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
― Maxim Gorky

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#23

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, Lower Depths and Other Plays

tags: art

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#24

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
― Maxim Gorky

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