There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.
Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.
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.
I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.
Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits
You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits.
Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.
I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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.
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.
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.
I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.
I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.
But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
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.
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?
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.
