#strength

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. ↗

— Drew Myron

#poem #poetry #quiet #quiet-life #quiet-mind

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

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

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. ↗

— Gary Locke

#been #culture #diversity #ideas #religion

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union. ↗

— George Mason

#agreed #because #bring #disgraceful #i

We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#areas #cooperative #draw #economy #exploit

None could be strong if we did not go through countless wrong. ↗

— Rizi Dame C. Briz

#wisdom #courage

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#avarice #cruelty #fluid #founded #lends

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#determined #feeling #nonsense #size #strength

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#awe #complement #hope #ideals #inspires