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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Time, Grief

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Being Strong

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Being Strong

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

  Joseph Conrad

  Weakness, Accidents

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• May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

  George S. Patton

  Peace, War, Enemy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well-behaved women seldom make history.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Funny, Inspiring, Witty

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, Vintage

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• Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

  Betty Smith

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

  Evan Esar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Individuality, Breathe

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

  Anne Bronte

  Exercise, Talent, Increase

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.232, Diversion Books

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• A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strong Women, Tess Of The D Urbervilles, Weak

  Thomas Hardy (1874). “Far From the Madding Crowd”, p.221, Henry Holt

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• I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

  Mother Teresa

  Leadership, Cheerleading, Thoughtful

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• We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

  Douglas Coupland

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Hope

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.58, Random House

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• Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Faith, Giving

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• This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sith

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.476, Manonmani Publishers

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• Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Real

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.354

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• And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, Sound, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.191, Hamilton Books

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• Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Hate, Greatness, Love Is

  "A New Slant on Life". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1965.

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• I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Women, Independent

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• Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.

  James Allen

  Fashion, Peace, Men

  James Allen, Orison Swett Marden (2013). “As a Man Thinketh: 3 Perspectives”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Faith

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

  Meg Cabot

  Hurt, Bravery, Might

  Meg Cabot (2008). “All American Girl”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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  Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Faith, Believe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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