Inner Strength ...
“Tonight, when I enter before God, my salute shall sweep the stars away from the blue threshold! One thing without stain, unspotted from this world, in spite of doom, mine own! And that is…my character.”
--Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac“Fear is the path to the dark side: fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”
--Yoda“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you’re ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too. Even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”
-- Schwartz“Love your enemy. It gives him a bad reputation.”
--Archbishop Desmond Tutu"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
– Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi“The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.”
--Indian Proverb
“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for the safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.”
–Emerson“Never turn your back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
--Winston Churchill
“The only permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear—fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.”
–H.L. Menken“Only the brave know how to forgive…a coward never…it is not in his nature.”
–Laurence Stern“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
--Louisa May Alcott“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
--Leonardo da Vinci“Have no fear of robbers or murderers. Such dangers are without, and are but petty. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. What matters it what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think only of what threatens our souls.”
--Victor Hugo“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.”
--Thomas Carlysle