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Strength

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." Kenyan Proverb

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." unknown

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means." Robert Louis Stevenson

"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."
 Rachel Carson

"When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world." B.K.S. Iyengar

"The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one." Wallace D. Wattles

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one." Heraclitus of Ephesus

"Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survive." Veronica Chambers

"Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength." Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)

"Storms make oaks take deeper root." George Herbert (1593 - 1633)

“Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.” Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.” Kenneth Hildebrand

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." Lao-Tzu

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway

“In the battle between the river and the rock, the river will always win. Not through strength but by persistence.” Confucius

“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.” Han Suyin

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