#strength

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. ↗

— Allen Klein

#center #damaged #destroyed #earlier #financial

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#beautiful #call #culturally #diversity #focused

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#game #name #objective #opponent #primary

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#appeal #appeals #attack #better #classes

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. ↗

— Archibald Cox

#did #genuine #judgment #more #nixon

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#dedicated #everyday #go #good #greatest

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#allowed #any #binds #broken #chains

What we become shouldn't be dictated by the mud and the dung and the dust and the fire and the ice and the dirt and the spit that hit us in the face, but what we become must be a choice made every day in the heart; and they who threw all of that at us to try and defile us– they will look up at us and see us no less beautiful. And even more beautiful. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #know-thyself #beauty