Quotes About Strength

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

He who thinks of renouncing "physical" struggle must renounce all struggle, for the spirit does not live without the flesh.

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

And that is where I have failed you, Ari. You see, I would have crawled to your mother a million times. I would crawl to her because I need her in order to live. She is my strength. God help me, Ari, I have been a party to the creation of a breed of men and women so hard they refuse to know the meaning of tears and humility.

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Love is the only engine of survival

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...

I salute you Brave spirit Who has swallowed so much And tasted so little.

Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever.

There is a crack in everything

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

There is no decent place to stand In a massacre But if a woman takes your hand Then go and stand with her

I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I'm old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering comes and Starts to climb I pray for courage At the end To see death coming As a friend

BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HAS given each man a shield of loneliness so that he cannot forget you. You are the truth of loneliness, and only your name addresses it. Strengthen my loneliness that I may be healed in your name, which is beyond all consolations that are uttered on this earth. Only in your name can I stand in the rush of time, only when this loneliness is yours can I lift my sins toward your mercy.

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

steer your way through the pain that is far more real than you

In the hopelessness of every other thing, you make your place, you strengthen your presence, and I ask yo bow down before the lord of my life.

Ah baby, let's get married We've been alone too long Let's be alone together Let's see if we're that strong