Quotes About Strength

anxiety is evidence of a battle between our strength as a self on one side and a danger which threatens to wipe out our existence as a self on the other.

Our task, then, is to strengthen our consciousness of ourselves, to find centers of strength within ourselves which will enable us to stand despite the confusion and bewilderment around us.

Don't withdraw, don't surrender, don't give up.

Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Je fus encore une fois surprise par la vue de mon visage dans la glace: il n'avait rien à voir avec mes décombres. Ce n'était pas un visage de vaincu. Marqué par la fatigue, mais au fond des yeux il restait encore quelque chose. Je ne dis pas : quelque chose d'invincible. Et pourtant, peut-être y a-t-il invincibilité. Les hommes oublient toujours que ce qu'ils vivent n'est pas mortel.

cette façon que vous avez de vouloir renoncer plutôt que de perdre.

The best way to defend yourself against the power of money is to have some.

Tuomet mes iš tikr?j? buvome pasiek? dugn? - nesakau "prarajos", nes nuo tada patyriau, kad praraja dugno neturi ir kad mes visi galim mušti gylio rekordus, niekada neišsemdami tos ?domios institucijos galimybi?.

At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the battle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because I was her happy ending.

He was back once more to the starting point: he must find money. Arms traffickers didn't give their wares for nothing and 'volunteers' did not join up on the strength of promissory notes.

At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending.

Pagaliau mes per?m?me pasaul? ? savo rankas, ir kiekvienas apverstas tankas atrod? kaip parblokšto dievo griau?iai.

C'est là que je viens me cacher quand j'ai peur. - Peur de quoi, Madame Rosa ? - C'est pas nécessaire d'avoir des raisons pour avoir peur, Momo. Ça, j'ai jamais oublié, parce que c'est la chose la plus vraie que j'aie jamais entendue.

After all,' he said, "I suppose there are things that nothing can kill and that remain forever intact. It's as if nothing could ever happen to human beings. They're a species over which it's not easy to triumph. They've a way of rising from the ashes, smiling and holding hands.

He always remembered it vividly when he was in physical pain and when the limit of his strength seemed to have been reached, and it was a memory that helped him every time to hold out and to go on.

I battled my feelings of inferiority bravely, picking out a guest and imagining him floating in the air at the end of a line I held in my hand, with his stiff-legged trousers, his checked vest, and his yellow tie, propelled this way or that with a flick of my hand. It was the first time I had wielded my imagination as a weapon of defense, and nothing ever turned out to be more beneficial to me in this life.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others.

stones are hard everywhere.

he was simply a man who had gone even further into loneliness than others - and that's a real exploit, by the way; where breaking records in loneliness is concerned, we're all champions in the field. ..........he continually repeats: "dogs are not enough anymore. People feel so damned lonely, they need company, they need something bigger, stronger, to lean on, something that can really stand up to it all. Dogs aren't enough; what we need is elephants.......

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Die ganze Dunkelheit der Welt reicht nicht aus, das Licht einer einzigen Kerze zu löschen.

She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.

She was a free bird: queen of the world and laughing.