"Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind."
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"Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are."
"You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption."
"The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves."
"The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose."
"The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it."
"The universe forces those who live in it to understand it."
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely."
"Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere."
"Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might."
"You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open."
"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
"The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom."
"Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength."
"The motive force of history is truth and not lies."
"Faith is the force of life."
"One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again."
"The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force."
"Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness."