Novala Takemoto Quotes

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

There is nothing more powerful in the world than the human spirit and the human will.

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.