The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.
Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 102
Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.
Ed Ayres
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.
To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.
Joanna Baillie
Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying.
Philip Yancey
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
Thomas Menino
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
Fred Brooks
“The warrior fights with courage not with anger.”
Ashanti Proverb
Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.
James Q. Wilson
Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
Gayle Forman
Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.
Quentin L. Cook
“But if you choose the way of the warrior, living a life of service, it will demand of you the best you have. You may not need to be great, but the world needs your greatness.”
Erwin Raphael McManus
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
Mike Figgis
