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"I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love."
"The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest, it is as if we open an inner door. It reduces fear, boosts confidence and brings us inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us to others and brings us a sense of connection to others, and sense of purpose and meaning in life."
"Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us."
"A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man."
"The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings."
"At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better."
"Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation."
"What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin."
"A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength."
"If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep."
"We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way."
"Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness."
"We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength."
"Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear."
"The strong are so stupid."
"Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat."
"Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful."
"Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength."
"No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform."
"There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood."
