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Quotes About Strength

Se presionó el corazón con ambas manos para acallarlo. Pero el corazón no es el hocico de un perro e incluso cuando se sujeta con las dos manos el hocico de un perro -que ladra insoportablemente-, siempre se le oye gruñir.
~ Gaston Leroux
I am Ursa Corregidora. I have tears for eyes. I was made to touch my past at an early age. I found it on my mother's tiddies. In her milk. Let no one pollute my music. I will dig out their temples. I will pluck out their eyes.
~ Gayl Jones
Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground.
~ Gene Wolfe
She smiled the infinitely kind smile of a woman who will not do what you ask.
~ Gene Wolfe
We leave them to others. The day came when they stood at the right hand of the dwarf, with their feet upon sand and millet at their backs, and all three stood much taller than he. And upon that day he called across the desert to their mother. Small though he was, his voice was large, and held the pain of a thousand beatings and the pain of a lover who knows that love is past.
~ Gene Wolfe
Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down.
~ Gene Wolfe
Strength and a stout heart are hazardous qualities where they cannot prevail.
~ Gene Wolfe
I myself teach no one, knowing I would make my students stronger to destroy me. I advise you to follow the same course.
~ Gene Wolfe
Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground. He
~ Gene Wolfe
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. What is the Autarch but a man who believes himself Autarch and makes others believe by the strength of it?
~ Gene Wolfe
I drive away those who pay to see me by foretelling their futures, and I will foretell yours. You are young now, and strong. But before the world has wound itself ten times more about the sun you shall be less strong, and you shall never regain the strength that is yours now. If you breed sons, you will engender enemies against yourself. If-- Enough! I said. What you are telling me is only the fortune of all men.
~ Gene Wolfe
A knight is a man who lives honorably and dies honorably, because he cares more for his honor than for his life. If his honor requires him to fight, he fights. He doesn't count his foes or measure their strength, because those things don't matter. They don't affect his decision.
~ Gene Wolfe
But strength still goes out from your thorns, and from your abysses the sound of music. Your shadows lie on my heart like roses and your nights are like strong wine.
~ Gene Wolfe
Thought. Then shall the state be without disagreement. Being without disagreement it shall be without conflict. Being without conflict it shall be vigorous, strong, and secure.
~ Gene Wolfe
You have no power over me, neither you nor they. I am not afraid of pain, or of death. There is only one living woman I desire
~ Gene Wolfe
nadie debe echar sobre sus espaldas fardo que no pueda llevar.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
He was broad and squat, with a thick neck; he could knock any door off its hinges, and would no doubt have excelled at that game the London apprentices play, known as 'breaking doors with our heads'.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
nada que es completo en sí mismo es más fuerte cuando se divide.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
allí donde encontremos la pena más profunda, allí empezaremos la curación.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
And Solomon says, 'Fortunate is the man who is in dread of all, because he who possesses a fearless heart and a strong body will presume too much, and misfortune shall befall him.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
This you may see that neither wisdom nor riches, beauty nor trickery, strength nor boldness may share power equally with Venus, for as she wishes she may guide the world.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Amor vincit omnia: Love conquers all.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
CHOOSE A SUBLIME IDEAL If you dedicate yourself to a sublime ideal, your life will continually grow in richness, strength and intensity. It is like a capital investment: you place your capital in a Heavenly bank so that, instead of deteriorating or going to waste, it increases and makes you richer. —Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
~ Georg Feuerstein Phd
It was a good thing I wasn't afraid, because I was scared stiff.
~ George Alec Effinger