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"I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary."
"And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature."
"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."
"You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces."
"Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe."
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure."
"If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief."
"A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it."
"Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength."
"Valour needs first strength, then a weapon."
"Strength is an empty shell."
"I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength."
"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."
"I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature."
"We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us."
"We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness."
"The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any."
"Bigger than any obstacle is the strength that one posses It's a power that overcomes every obstacle"
"It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount."
"The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world."
