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In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale. -- Martha Beck
Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation! -- Joyce Meyer
Overwhelm, panic, and wanting to flee were states of being in my everyday life as I tried to figure out life on my own, in the city I had grown up in, after an entire life made in Olympia, Washington for the eight years previous. -- Wendy C. Ortiz
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm. -- Idries Shah
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. -- Emile Zola
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. -- Desmond Tutu
I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do. -- Dave Matthews
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. -- Ogden Nash
I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more. -- Chris Ofili
There's no need to overwhelm yourself with thoughts, because you know that you're just as good or better than some of the players you're going up against. -- Cobi Jones
Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult. -- Emily Giffin
In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way. -- Marsha Blackburn
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art. -- Roger Ebert
Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude. -- Grace Gealey
I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack. -- T. D. Jakes
Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything. -- Sheena Iyengar
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. -- Charles Krauthammer
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. -- Charles Sturt
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many. -- Stanley Hauerwas
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. -- Jane Smiley
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them. -- Jello Biafra
Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this. -- Paul Ryan
There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it. -- Philip Zimbardo
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. -- Brendon Burchard
The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. That's why you are there. For the game, you can't go away from the game and beat your chest. People are there to watch the game. You are there to supplement, not to override or overwhelm. -- Al Michaels
Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down. -- Dev Hynes
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm -- Scott Holman
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions. -- Winston Churchill
Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values. -- Jim Rohn
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm. -- Gautama Buddha
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts. -- Lord Byron
Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria. -- Lynne McTaggart
I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics. -- Jeff Flake
Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature. -- Willie Soon
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. -- Oscar Wilde
We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice. -- L. Tom Perry
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one. -- Diane Duane
When life's adversities overwhelm you, look beyond your circumstances with an absolute trust that God is in control. -- Mamur Mustapha
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself. -- Francois Fenelon
Life is a fight. Don't let it overwhelm you. Adapt, and combat every situation it throws at you. -- Tim McIlrath
I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long. -- Karen Elson
In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred. -- Rob Brezsny
If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well. -- Dean Koontz
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. -- Frank Herbert
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man. -- Clarence Darrow
Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world -- Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. -- Desmond Tutu
Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits -- John Warren Kindt
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Success shouldn't be revenge or a way to overwhelm the naysayers. If that is your reason, you are far from being content. -- Unarine Ramaru
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. -- Andrew Solomon
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. -- Ogden Nash
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. -- Willa Cather
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom. -- Scott Holman
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes. -- Donatella Versace
It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you. -- Jim Rohn
Stay in one place too long and the tide can overwhelm you. Ride the tide, surf the waves, stay on top of the changes. -- Ron Kaufman
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. -- John Keats
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. -- Dalai Lama
I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective. -- Joshua Harris
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you. -- Eve Ensler
Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That's way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia. -- Eskinder Nega
After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me. -- Jennifer Tipton
Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other. -- Samuel Johnson
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Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us. -- Diana Trilling
We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely. -- Salman Khurshid
News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising... -- Ralph Fiennes
This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice. -- Henry B. Eyring
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out. -- Peter Lynch
Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation? -- Hanif Kureishi
A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them. -- Toni Maguire
Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying. -- Jonathan Rottenberg
On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim, and you will swear that heaven is on earth. -- Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose. -- Allison Maslan
Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe. -- Theodore Roethke
Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it. -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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