Quotes About Strength

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

We need a term that will stand in contrast to "power" as it acquires its meaning in finite play. Let us say that where the finite player plays to be powerful the infinite player plays with strength.

Power will always be restricted to a relatively small number of selected persons. Anyone can be strong.

Though infinite players are strong, they are not powerful and do not attempt to become powerful.

A culture can be no stronger than its strongest myths.

Let us say that where the finite player plays to be powerful the infinite player plays with strength. A powerful person is one who brings the past to an outcome, settling all its unresolved issues. A strong person is one who carries the past into the future, showing that none of its issues is capable of resolution.

Power will always be restricted to a relatively small number of selected persons. Anyone can be strong. Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

Power is concerned with what has already happened; strength with what has yet to happen.

Vitality cannot be given, only found.

So also in culture. Infinite players understand that the vigor of a culture has to do with the variety of its sources, the differences within itself. The unique and the surprising are not suppressed in some persons for the strength of others. The genius in you stimulates the genius in me.

Esto es una selva donde nos despedazamos todos: sólo sobreviven los más fuertes y los débiles se destruyen". -La Máquina Génesis.

No one emerges from a troubled childhood without the battle scars to prove it. It is amazing that we fare as well as we do.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.

James R. Chiles

Suffering perfects the soul.

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

rather may be cured.

I can't help noticing you appear to be traveling by yourself." "Yes, it's all the rage. Women looking after themselves. We'll be getting the vote any day, too, from what I hear.

I want to be an Avenger.

God wants to give you victory, but He can only do it if you show up for the battle.

The woman with the horned helmet—who had to be of Viking descent—spoke.