Quotes About Strength

children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.

You cannot defeat the sea - it is too great and too uncaring. You can only surrender to its power...All things that exist live, though maybe they do not measure life as we do. [Chapter 35, page 305]

And, for a moment, doubt flickered in me, but then I banished it, for surely nothing required courage so much as love, and I was equal to it.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Nevertheless, it is not fair to decry strength because there are persons who assault people whom they encounter, nor to traduce courage because there are those who slay men wantonly, nor in general to transfer to things the depravity of men, but rather to put the blame on the men themselves who misuse the good things, and who, by the very powers which might help their fellow-countrymen, endeavor to do them harm.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

trust is the most powerful to win a battle

A world of grief and pain, but the flowers bloom even then

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Gridò, se si può dir che gridi chi parla senza emetter quasi suono ma con tutta la sua forza.

This he understood: that association makes people stronger and brings out each person's best gifts, and gives a joy which is rarely to be had by keeping to oneself, the joy of realizing how many honest decent capable people there are for whom it is worth giving one's best (while living just for oneself very often the opposite happens, of seeing people's other side, the side which makes one keep one's hand always on the hilt of one's sword).

Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!' -'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde. -'No, to resist,' replied the Baron.

There can be no love if one does not remain oneself with all one's strength.

Haces bien en estar celoso. Pero tú pretendes someter los celos a la razón. –Claro: así los hago más eficaces. –Tú razonas demasiado. ¿Por qué se razona con el amor? –Para amarte más. Cualquier cosa, si se hace razonando, aumenta su poder.

Capì questo: che le associazioni rendono l'uomo più forte e mettono in risalto le doti migliori delle singole persone, e danno la gioia che raramente s'ha restando per proprio conto, di vedere quanta gente c'è onesta e brava e capace e per cui vale la pena di vedere cose buone (mentre vivendo per proprio conto capita più spesso il contrario, di vedere l'altra faccia della gente, quella per cui bisogna tener sempre la mano alla guardia della spada)

The historical events which mothers take part in acquire the greatness and invincibility of natural phenomena.

Non ci può essere amore se non si è se stessi con tutte le proprie forze.

No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas.

Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric. That's exactly what she says: telluric