#power

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#awe #character #elements #fire #forces

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

I cured with the power that came through me. ↗

— Black Elk

#came #cured #i #me #through

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#calms #deepest #fed #gentlest #how

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ↗

— Epictetus

#about #beyond #cease #only #our

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#audience #certain #harmony #know #more

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#machine #see #yourself

People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#ask #attorney #attorney general #attracted #bill

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#anywhere #confined #dedicated #disciplined #drives