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• In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control.

  Richard Rohr

  Strong, Ignorance, Ego

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• If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.

  Ruth Graham

  Strong, Children, Kissing

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• Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.

  Niall Horan

  Strong, Being Single, Mean

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• I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

  Robert Pattinson

  Strength, Being Strong, Courage

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• But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Hurt, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

  Charles Frazier

  Strong, Pain, Grief

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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• We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Choices, Everyday

  David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press

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• I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Strong, People, New Life

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Strong, Patriotic, Government

  "Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant". Book by Ulysses S. Grant. Chapter 16, www.gutenberg.org. 1885.

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• Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Hurt, Strong

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage

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• There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

  Jane Lindskold

  Strong, Enemy, Retreat

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• Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn’t expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Strong, Inspiration

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• giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Atheist, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

  Sojourner Truth

  Strong Women, Truth, Together

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Enough, Burden

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.979, 谷月社

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• A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Writing, Careers

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

  William Faulkner

  Strong, Capacity To Love, Giving

  William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

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• I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Strong, Men

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.674, Delphi Classics

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• Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Strong, Catching Fire, Shame

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.178, Scholastic Inc.

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• If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Strong, Christ

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• Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

  Christopher Pike

  Strong, Light, Darkness

  Christopher Pike (2012). “Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Strength, Strong, Enough

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 3 (1762)

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• The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strong

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