Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
I generally play strong people and scary people.
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.
Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.
Strong people do not need strong leaders.
The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.
Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and hurt you back. Stong people can walk away - no repercussions, you see, if you attack a stong person.
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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