#strength

One example of an uniquely Sethian approach towards initiation is for the initiate to regard his or her own life with the same urgency and need experienced as in a war zone in which every move and action must be weighed yet determined swiftly, as necessity dictates. During battle, situations such as missed opportunity, lingering sentimentality, second or third chances, or excessive contemplation would be fatal; and so it is on the sinister path. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#religion #sethianism #setianism #strength #war

Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal--such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#strength #life

Ein guter Mann ist so stark, wie er es für die richtige Frau sein muss. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#strength #love

Shino looked at me straight in the eye and smiled, her face brimming with a kind of inner strength. That strength seemed to gather the beads of perspiration that glistened on her brow, then sprang from her face and leapt across to my heart with a rhythm like ripples on water. ↗

— Tetsuo Miura

#love #strength #inspirational

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled again? ... I'd love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I'd start to fidget after a while. She's such a comfort. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#empowerment #filming #gender #independence #men

Sometimes she couldn't tolerate a man's physical superiority. No wonder they were so damned macho. ↗

— Margaret Way

#man #men #strength #men

Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually. ↗

— D.B. Jackson

#character #nobility #strength #men

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain. ↗

— Stephen King

#mind #strength #men

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#gives #great #hope #strength