Overcome

-Neil Gaiman paraphrasing Gilbert K Chesterton

Chesterton’s Quote: “Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” [Emphasis Mine]

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1000 Quotes Project

"A Selection of Curated Quotes"

1082 – “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

1080 – “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

1077-「失败不是跌倒,而是拒绝起床。」

1071 – “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kickass.”

1038 – “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

1034 – “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

1033 – “If you accept your limitation, you can go beyond them.”

998 – “We must try not to sink beneath our anguish… but battle on.”

970 – “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you.”

955 – “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”