A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.
A strong egoism is a protection.
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.
There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Oh, yes. I’d do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.
Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.
The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal – conscious or unconscious – of every religion.
Superhuman power is not strong enough.
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.
The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.