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There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal...

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Robert FulghumUh-oh - Some Observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient i...

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The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

We must go on, because we can't turn back.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make...

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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free ...

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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you b...

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Salman RushdieImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

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Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certai...

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I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be ...

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In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong...

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

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Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." ...

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You had the physical bullies and the emotional bullies and they both revelled in destroying lives.No...

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If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignora...

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Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's e...

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Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the o...

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...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mount...

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to ...

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too ligh...

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...

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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the ...

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Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down t...

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He can't value you more than you value yourself.

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval o...

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There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice ...

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Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself,...

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Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't e...

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It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...

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I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...

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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for your...

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and ca...

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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmos...

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It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perform...

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Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Lo...

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I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

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…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

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Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what ...

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I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

As he stood there lost in reflection, Auclair thought he seemed more like a man revolving plans for ...

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The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs

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William CowperThe Poetical Works Of William Cowper

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common hab...

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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supp...

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Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourse...

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Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will griev...

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...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

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William WordsworthCharacter of the Happy Warrior

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothin...

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William WordsworthOde: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body rea...

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Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...

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Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a...

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There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is s...

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

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Alain BadiouEthics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then onc...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo