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“In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“With time, it's important to turn pain into resource, developing strength, resistence and self-esteem.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Con il tempo, è importante trasformare il dolore in risorsa, sviluppando forza, resistenza e autostima.
Source: prevale.net

“The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.”

Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 113.

“On the France's Indochina involvement: "They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves…France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose."”

Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Vietnam

“Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.”

Martin Luther book On the Bondage of the Will

Source: On the Bondage of the Will (1525), p. 202

“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men — not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and — ah, this above all — their conversation.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“I have said that, in a sense, the parasites were a 'shadow' of man's cowardice and passivity. Their strength could increase in an atmosphere of defeat and panic, for it fed on human fear. In that case, the best way to combat them was to change the atmosphere to one of strength and purpose.”

Colin Wilson book The Mind Parasites

Source: The Mind Parasites (1967), p. 188

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35) 1930s, "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis" https://books.google.com/books/about/New_Introductory_Lectures_on_Psycho_anal.html?id=hIqaep1qKRYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false (1933) Source: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Princess (2013), p. 564, inscription on the back of Tessa's jade pendant

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Lucky in Love

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

“A Soldier should never have to hide their family. The strength of our Soldiers is our families.”

Tammy Smith (1963) United States Army officer

Army Times, September 2, 2012.

“Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist

Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/ From Prose

“The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.”

Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge

Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556 (1951).
Judicial opinions

“A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.”

Barbara Ehrenreich book Nickel and Dimed

Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 366

“There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 38