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Listen, babyAin't no mountain highAin't no valley lowAin't no river wide enough, babyIf you need me,...

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She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic ...

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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

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McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men—(...

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The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's proble...

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Max LucadoTraveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn ...

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My grandfather often felt frustrated or baffled by my grandmother's illness, but when it came to the...

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He was handsome and strong, but somehow that wasn't enough for him. He also felt the need to be toug...

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to ti...

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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our ...

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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr...

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Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, "I can do all thin...

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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my str...

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Many things have broken him. He holds himself together with spit and endless smiling, but all can se...

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The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and w...

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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

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Napoleon HillYou Can Work Your Own Miracles

Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all ...

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Napoleon HillYou Can Work Your Own Miracles

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encoura...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

...but fear of death gives us strength.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're d...

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Neil StraussEmergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

My religion is Get Over It.

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Nora EphronI Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

one thing I don’t needis any more apologiesi got sorry greetin me at my front dooryou can keep yrsi ...

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Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. N...

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice...

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We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great natio...

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What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock ...

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the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if yo...

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At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole bo...

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I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in...

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She didn't struggle and soshe didn't grow

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep ...

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Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death...

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If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for yo...

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Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and ...

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Every man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

yEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

Here’s a hand to the boy who has courageTo do what he knows to be right;When he falls in the way of ...

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You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care...

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Queen LatifahPut on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn an...

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...

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Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arro...

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Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the ar...

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

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In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with maje...

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this l...

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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be ...

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to putthings into ourse...

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Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems...

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What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the...

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There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal...

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Robert FulghumUh-oh - Some Observations From Both Sides Of The Refrigerator Door

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient i...

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The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

We must go on, because we can't turn back.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make...

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I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free ...

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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you b...

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Salman RushdieImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

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Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

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If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, [Pure, hard, certai...

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I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be ...

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In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...

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Sigmund FreudNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong...

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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

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Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." ...

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You had the physical bullies and the emotional bullies and they both revelled in destroying lives.No...

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If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignora...

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Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's e...

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Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the o...

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...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mount...

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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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