“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”
Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer
Source: Island Beneath the Sea
“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.”
Trotzky's Diary in Exile — 1935 (1958)
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Michael Korda (1933) British writer
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“In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
Francis Bacon, in The Advancement of Learning (1605) Book II, xx, 8.
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L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
Source: Killing History: The False Left-Right Political Spectrum and the Battle between the ‘Free Left’ and the ‘Statist Left', (2019), p. 117
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891–1970) former Governor-General of Australia
Source: Defeat Into Victory (1961), p. 184
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist
Source: The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Context: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Subramanian Swamy (1939) Indian politician
On giving reservations to Muslims and Christians, as quoted in "Muslims and Christians shouldn't ask for reservation, says Subramanian Swamy" http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-muslims-and-christians-shouldn-t-ask-for-reservation-says-subramanian-swamy-1995886, DNA India (16 June 2014) <br class="br">2011-2014
Sri Aurobindo book Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri (1918-1950), Book Two : The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Context: A memory steals in from lost heavens of Truth,
A wide release comes near, a Glory calls,
A might looks out, an estranged felicity.
In glamorous passages of half-veiled light
Wandering, a brilliant shadow of itself,
This quick uncertain leader of blind gods,
This tender of small lamps, this minister serf
Hired by a mind and body for earth-use
Forgets its work mid crude realities;
It recovers its renounced imperial right,
It wears once more a purple robe of thought
And knows itself the Ideal's seer and king,
Communicant and prophet of the Unborn,
Heir to delight and immortality.
All things are real that here are only dreams,
In our unknown depths sleeps their reserve of truth,
On our unreached heights they reign and come to us
In thought and muse trailing their robes of light.