#strength

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#connected #intellectual #mind #powers #skin

Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps. ↗

— S.L.J. Shortt

#inspirational #strength #inspirational

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. ↗

— Tommy Tran

#fantasy #inspirational #life #love #people

Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual. ↗

— Nicholas A. McGirr

#self-esteem #strength #inspirational

Adversity is not a bad thing~It's a God thing! ↗

— Prophetess Dina Rolle

#adversity-inspirational #adversity-strength-achievement #dina-rolle #god #god-s-grace

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain’t comin’ back Burn the land and boil the sea You can’t take the sky from me There’s no place I can be Since I found Serenity But you can’t take the sky from me… ↗

— Joss Whedon

#character-strength #firefly #freedom #music #song-lyrics

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #identity #independence #living-vicariously #self-discovery

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. ↗

— Miyamoto Musashi

#far #inspirational #perception #sight #strategy

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#limits #pain #strength #inspirational

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#grief #strength #freedom