"I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better."

-- Anne Bancroft

#Struggle Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.”
“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; Iâ€™m grateful for it the way Iâ€™m grateful for the ocean.”
“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.”
“What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciouslyÂ â€” but you don't.Â It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself.”
“I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do”
“For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.”
“Not for a minute did I believe that this wasnâ€™t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater than that. It far outweighed the alienation of all the previous years. Bones thought five months was too short; I was amazed Iâ€™d been granted joy for so long. â€œI love you,â€ he moaned, or maybe I said it. I couldnâ€™t tell the difference anymore. The lines had dissolved between us.”
“Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.”

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