#strength

The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and drink vodka, and wear black furs, and slurp borscht by the pail, like blood. Children may wear through their socks marching in righteous parades, but Papa never misses his wine with supper. Therefore, it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one’s stomach than of one’s nation. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#strength #survival-of-the-fittest #communism

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#apparent failure #dazzling #failure #islam #mohammed

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#also #anything #assume #because #believe

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#man #many #opposition #out #strength

Our passion is our strength. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#passion #strength

You're mine, Echo, and I'll treasure you forever. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#burning #courage #friendship #love #relationships

Welcome Beauty, banish fear. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#beauty

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths. ↗

— Ray Lee Hunt

#know #more #strengths #than #weaknesses

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#caught #depressed #die #down #ear

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#re-growth #strength