Quotes

James Anthony Froude photo
Jane Addams photo

“… this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”

Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 7

Coventry Patmore photo

“Strong passions mean weak will, and he
Who truly knows the strength and bliss
Which are in love, will own with me
No passion but a virtue 'tis.”

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet

Book I, Canto III, II Love a Virtue.
The Angel In The House (1854)

Waleed Al-Husseini photo
Susan Cain photo
Prevale photo

“True nobility of spirit manifests itself in the ability not to cast one's shadow on others, transforming the burden of problems into an act of kindness and inner strength.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vera nobiltà d'animo si manifesta nella capacità di non gettare la propria ombra sugli altri, trasformando il peso dei problemi in un atto di gentilezza e forza interiore.
Source: prevale.net

Dorothy Thompson photo
John Muir photo

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

The Yosemite http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_yosemite/ (1912), chapter 15: Hetch Hetchy Valley
1910s
Variant: Everybody needs beauty... places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.

Jodi Picoult photo
Harriet Tubman photo
Albert Einstein photo

“Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Jodi Picoult photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo
Audre Lorde photo

“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.”

The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.

Leila Aboulela photo
Jeffrey Archer photo
Brené Brown photo

“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are