Quotes About Strength

Don Corleone was too weak to speak much but he wished to listen and exercise veto powers.

Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward.

he did not have that personal magnetism, that animal force

dormitorio? Kay, después de beber un buen sorbo, sonrió y repuso: —Bueno. Para ella, todo fue casi igual a como había sido antes, salvo que Michael era ahora más rudo, más directo, menos tierno.

Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.

All of these men were good listeners, patient men. They had one other thing in common. They were those rarities, men who had refused to accept the rule of organized society, men who refused the dominion of other men. There was no force, no mortal man who could bend them to their will unless they wished it. They were men who guarded their free will with wiles and murder. Their wills could be subverted only by death. Or the utmost reasonableness.

Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.

Era un refugio huir allí: la vida espléndida de la ficción daba fuerzas para soportar la vida verdadera. Pero la riqueza de la literatura hacía también que la realidad real se empobreciera.

el primer día que pudo ponerse de pie a los pocos pasos se desplomó al suelo, exhausto, en un estado de debilidad que no recordaba haber sentido antes.

Nunca te dejes pisotear por nadie, hijo. Este consejo es la única herencia que vas a tener.

puissant; qu'on le sente partout, mais qu'on ne le voie pas».[51]

What if after all these years you discover that behind your determined, disciplined mind, impervious to discouragement, behind the fortress admired and envied by others, you have a tender, timid, wounded, sentimental heart?

But sometimes, a boat needs to rock; a boat needs to head straight for the heart of a storm and come out on the other side, weather beaten but with flags flying.

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out? Do you want to know what is there or live in the dark delusion that this commercial world insists we remain sealed inside like blind caterpillars in an eternal cocoon? Will you curl up with your eyes closed and die? Or can you fight your way out of it and fly?

Freak the ferocious out.

When he talked about a Higher Power, he used words like gratifying , restorative and life-changing . It was something that got you through the tough times, which any young person could manage with a little hard work, trust and tenacity. God was a trip to Cancun.

You are a magnificent and powerful person," I said.

That was women for you -- always morphing. One minute they were helpless, needing shelter and English muffins, the next they were ruthlessly bending you to their will like you were a piece of sheet metal.

I closed my eyes, letting my fear wash over me. I had to bathe in it, accept it, drink it down, let it cover me like sludge, so it became nothing so extraordinary, nothing so fearsome—and I could think.

African-American history is so much more than the Middle Passage, assassinated prophets, a catalog of the dead and dying, the imprisoned and the failing among us. The human spirit is never summed up or adequately captured by a litany only of its weakness, confusion, and fear.

One isn't born courageous, one becomes it.

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

Tu oublies que tout le monde n'a pas ta force, ni ton courage... On ne nait pas courageux, on le devient.

I wanted to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.