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“I find men victims of illusions in all parts oflife. Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bauble or another. Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion, is stronger than the Titans, stronger than Apollo.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: In his essay Illusions, quoted in Gokhale, Balkrishna Govind India in the American mind Bombay: PopularPrakashan, 1992.

“He’s stronger than this. He’s always been stronger… (Vane)
Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“You are never stronger… than when you land on the other side of despair.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.”

Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist

Source: Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967), p. 51

“Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.”

William Powell (author) book The Anarchist Cookbook

Source: The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), Chapter One: "Drugs", p. 59.

“Listen, then. I say justice is nothing other than what is advantageous for the stronger.”

Thrasymachus (-459–-399 BC) Ancient Greek sophist

Plato, Republic, 338c

“You can’t become a good writer unless you have the ability to see that everybody is seeking to ease his or her pain, and everyone’s pain is relative. Blondes don’t really have more fun. There’s always someone who’s going to be bigger or faster or stronger or a better writer or singer or architect than you are. But accepting you where you are is one of the things that fiction helps you do.”

James McBride (writer) (1957) American journalist

On having empathy in “James McBride: How I Write” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/james-mcbride-write/ in The Writer (2013 Dec 30)

“Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“The reason why fear is so powerful is because you believe it to be stronger than you.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 36

“Sometimes the love you'll feel after you've been hurt is stronger than ever.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124

“We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

First address to Congress (24 February 2009)
2009
Context: But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.

“I have no other desire than to leave Belgium bigger, stronger and more beautiful.”

Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909) King of the Belgians

Pierre Vercauteren: A king unjustly maligned. (Page 18) https://www.memoiresducongo.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Leo2-Vercauteren.pdf Leopold II on the evening of his accession in 1865 confided to the baron Lambermont. Léopold II, Count Louis de Lichtervelde (p.55). <br class="br">Quotes related to Belgium