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And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on. ↗

— James Frey

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Never forget who you are, for surely the world won’t. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

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The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation. ↗

— Cheryl Hughes

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My beloved is the sun And I am the earth that thrives only in her warmth. My beloved is the rain And I am the grass that thirsts for her quenching kiss. My beloved is the wind And I am the wings that soar when she fills me with her gentle strength. My beloved is the rock Upon which rests the happiness of all my days. —The Elements of Love, a poem by Aileron v'En Kavali of the Fey ↗

— C.L. Wilson

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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength. ↗

— George Washington

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I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself ↗

— P.C. Cast

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إن عقل المرأة إذا ذبل ومات ،فقد ذبل عقل الأمة كلها ومات. ↗

— توفيق الحكيم

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...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven. ↗