Quotes About Strength

Zu den Steinen hat einer gesagt: "seid menschlich." Die Steine haben gesagt: "Wir sind noch nicht hart genug!

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

Mut beweist man nicht mit der Faust allein, man braucht den Kopf dazu.

You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Those flower-like boys are not sufficiently strong to resist and break the power of the Great Mother. They are more pets than lovers.

He would not be strong enough to gaze directly upon the petrifying face of the uroboros, so he raises its image to consciousness and kills it "by reflection.

More: she is something that cries out to be rescued, set free, and redeemed, and she demands that the man shall prove himself manly, not merely as the bearer of the phallic instrument of fertilization, but as a spiritual potency, a hero. She expects strength, cunning, resourcefulness, bravery, protection, and readiness to fight.

Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially

Let Our Hearts Become One, Tightly Locked. Let There Be No Keys To Unlock Our Trust, Unlock Our Love, Unlock What Those Will Try To Oppose." ?

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

The upper lip must never tremble. Some fear to be abused and have their identity destroyed, if they make an aperture in the curtain of their emotions. ("The upper lip must never tremble")

We may do well to be attentive to the good and the bad vibrations in life. Since elephants use their feet to listen to vibrations and thus capture significant codes of impending peril, they might coach humans and teach them how to become "surefooted" in hazardous times. Keeping feet on the ground, however, should not hinder us from flying high and reaching soaring heights. ("Trompe le pied.")

Florence Dempsey, played by Torchy Blane actress Glenda Farrell, goes so far as to memorably declare to her friend Charlotte in The Mystery of the Wax Museum, "You raise the kids; I'll raise the roof!

Gay people never give up!

This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I told everyone I was gonna do this, so I gotta do it... or I will be living a life of feminist-sounding somedays. And I will be more responsible, powerful, and amazing afterward. I will be able to do anything and not self-consciously stare at elevator numbers when the doors close. I will look the other person in right the eye and nod hello.

What doesn't kill you will eventually turn you on

It must be hard to survive without anything at all.

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.

There's more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn't cruel or mean. He doesn't claw an enemy who can't fight back. Where's the honor in that?

This is not an end. It is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.