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"There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind."
"The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard."
"Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'"
"Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation."
"Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto."
"Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything."
"When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant."
"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
"What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?"
"The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own."
"You can be stylish, and powerful too."
"The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are."
"It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song."
"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say."
"Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book."
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
"One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe."
"The kiss that you have never given is just as powerful as hours of actual lovemaking. The erotic isn't just what is happening between people's legs. It is also what's happening in their erotic mind."
"In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows. Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness."