Quotes About Strength

I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

By betting against fragility, they were antifragile.

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.

Stay robust to how others treat you.

He managed to lift him off the ground

You may outlive your strength, never your wisdom. –

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Repeated punishment, while it crushes the hatred of a few, stirs the hatred of all … just as trees that have been trimmed throw out again countless branches." For revolutions feed on repression, growing heads faster and faster as one literally cuts a few off by killing demonstrators. There is an Irish revolutionary song that encapsulates the effect: The higher you build your barricades, the stronger we become.

Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity.

After things got bad for him, they somehow recovered by some invisible hand, and he was led to believe that it was his intrinsic property to recover from hardships by running every time into a new opportunity. He

Esse é o argumento que David Hume, em sua História da Inglaterra,5 apresenta em favor dos pequenos Estados, já que os grandes cedem à sedução da guerra.

The question is: what would you like to be, a dog or a wolf?

Remember from the logic of the barbell that it is necessary to first remove fragilities.

Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.

She discovered the wings she never knew she had.

She was able to believe in this because she needed to; and, believing, was her own true, promising friend once more.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Rogan] "I've been watching you, and you're more confident and decisive than any woman I've ever known. There's no pretense to you. No concern that what you're doing is the wrong thing, or that you're not doing it right." "And you don't like those traits in a woman?" "I do. I didn't know that until I found them.

She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need.

You think you're the only one? Theo said. Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.

Frost wrote, "is that unless you are at home in the metaphor, unless you have had your proper poetical education in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere. Because you are not at ease with figurative values: you don't know the metaphor in its strength and its weakness. . .

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.