"Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others."
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"Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy."
"America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment."
"The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized."
"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion."
"When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up."
"Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things."
"Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty"
"Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end."
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."
"For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself"
"It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself."
"You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer"."
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come."
"Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom."
"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."
"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."