overcoming quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."
"The way I looked at it, I was born in hell and every time I won a fight, that was one step out of it."
"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome."
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
"Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another."
"To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action."
"Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow."
"This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes."
"Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what’s truly fuckworthy."
"The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it."
"We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive."
"If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head."
"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."
"Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice."