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I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to ...

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too ligh...

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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by ...

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It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the ...

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Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey

Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down t...

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He can't value you more than you value yourself.

The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.

But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval o...

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There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice ...

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Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself,...

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Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't e...

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It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...

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I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need ...

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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for your...

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and ca...

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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmos...

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It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perform...

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Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Lo...

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I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

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…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

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Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what ...

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I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

As he stood there lost in reflection, Auclair thought he seemed more like a man revolving plans for ...

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The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

God moves in mysterious waysHis wonders to performs

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William CowperThe Poetical Works Of William Cowper

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common hab...

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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supp...

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Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourse...

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Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will griev...

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...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

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William WordsworthCharacter of the Happy Warrior

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothin...

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William WordsworthOde: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body rea...

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Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...

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Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

To marry and have children, that is the common lot of women. Only one woman in a hundred--more, in a...

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There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is s...

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

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Alain BadiouEthics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then onc...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

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Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads Atalanta in Calydon

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

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Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way yo...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Love is our strength to overcome the evils of the world.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Women Are Not RosesWomen have no beginningonly continualflows.Though rivers flowwomen are notrivers....

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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the c...

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In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for thos...

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I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them cou...

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I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my...

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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me coura...

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We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not ...

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In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes f...

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silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Weakness or strength: there you are, strength. You do not know where you are going, nor why you are ...

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Arthur RimbaudA Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greate...

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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reac...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...

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Even the mild-mannered Sophia Western of Tom Jones and Richardson's annoyingly pious Clarissa Harlow...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and ar...

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Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

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Barbara EhrenreichNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

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Ben JonsonTimber: Or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go th...

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought...

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