#strength

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#political #women #strength

No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#kindness #learning #sadness #sincerity #sorrow

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #self-love #women-s-strength #love

لم يوجد الحب ليجعلنا سعداء، بل أنا أعتقد أن الحب وجد ليبين لنا مدى قوتنا على المعاناة والاحتمال ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#pain #strength #love

Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #strength #life

Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable. ↗

— Kyo Shirodaira

#motivation #stand #strength #motivational

I can bench press steam, but not fog. I just have to wait until the fog lifts itself.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bench-press #fog #natural #nature #passion

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#beautiful #beauty #cruel #disappointment #everlasting

Your eyes show the strength of your soul. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#strength

You want science and studies? Fuck you. I’ve got scars and blood and vomit. ↗

— Jim Wendler

#strength #science