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“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

Lois Lowry Gathering Blue

Variant: Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
Source: Gathering Blue

“Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.”

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

p 69 - Book one: The winds of change - The web of illusion
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980)

“Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“You are stronger than your difficulties. Much stronger.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Sei più forte delle tue difficoltà. Molto più forte.
Source: prevale.net

“In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.”

Richey James Edwards (1967–2008) Welsh musician

"Manic's Depressive", NME, 1 October 1994

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“Life is stronger than death.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”
Nil adsuetudine maius.

Ovid book Ars amatoria

Variant translation: Nothing is more powerful than custom.
Book II, line 345
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

“Fear is stronger than love.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“Habit is stronger than nature.”
Consuetudo natura potentior est.

Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian

V, 5, 21.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book V

“Mother love is stronger than the filth and scabbiness on a child, and so the love of God toward us is stronger than the dirt that clings to us.”

Martin Luther book Table Talk

94
Table Talk (1569)

“Our demand for the Green New Deal must be stronger than fossil fuel lobbyists. Our demand for Medicare for All must be stronger than Big Pharma lobbyists. Our demand for Net Neutrality must be stronger than ISP lobbyists.”

Ro Khanna (1976) U.S. Representative from California

Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078674235495796736 (28 December 2018)

“He is a fool who tries to withstand the stronger, for he does not get the mastery and suffers pain besides his shame.”

Hesiod book Works and Days

Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 210.

“There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.”

Han Suyin (1917–2012) physician and author

“There are things stronger than the strongest man…”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.”

James Doolittle (1896–1993) United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Variant: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6; variant translation: It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives sweet thoughts. And from love and sweetness alone can form come: form and civilization.
Context: Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts.

“…nothing is stronger than true reality.”

Melissus of Samos (-470–-430 BC) Eleatic philosopher

Fragments of Melissus's On Nature, Fragment 8

“Right reason is stronger than force.”

James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)