“Before the enemies assess your strength, they look at your economic situation.”
“Looking at her grandson with great patience, Grammy replied, “When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, not much younger’n you, my Memaw tole me that biscuit makin’ was ser’ous business. For ever’ biscuit ya cut, yer buildin’ muscle and storin’ up grit.”
Source: Revealed Truth: A Journey From Fear to Faith
“On ne condamne jamais sévèrement ceux qui font preuve de cruauté, pourvu qu'ils aient eu le succès. En ce temps de haine et de violence, dans ce monde de fer et de sang, on condamne plutôt ceux qui ne sont pas assez cruels. Les hommes qui ont versé le plus de sang sont qualifiés de forts, de vrais gouvernants. Ceux qui en ont versé le moins, sont par contre des faibles, des incapables, des impuissants.”
Source: Lenin by M.-A. Landau-Aldanov; authorized translation from the French. 1922 [Leather Bound]
“Consider the possibility of a world wherein every government develops incentive programs that encourage citizens to set worthy goals, join the workforce, take pride in personal achievement, and break the chains of poverty and government assistance. William G. Alston”
Source: Four Keys to the Natural Anabolic State: The Pathway to Health, Fitness, Faith, and a Huge Competitive Edge
“They had never promised each other every lifetime, every universe, every possible arrangement of atoms. Those are in infinite supply, and they are two girls. But they are two girls whose blood runs with the heat of exploding stars, even as it drips down their knuckles. They are two girls whose souls reach for each other and ignore probability and infinity. They are two girls who crash together and touch each other gently.
They have each other’s names carved into their bones and each other’s fingerprints tattooed on their ligaments and they breathe in time with the other’s heartbeat. They would count the steps to hell and freeze it over to save one another and they would burn if there were no other choice.
When the sun goes supernova and solar flares lick across the sky, they will see one another, even if only for an instant, and think, This is almost heaven. And with every instant they have they can read each other like braille with ink-stained fingertips and they are a force of nature if you dare to touch them, learning what happens when a hurricane protects its own.”
Source: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 141, Nos. 1 & 2, July/August 2021
“Deficits are defeated by the strength that we gain in fighting them.”
“We are entitled to three things: We want our children to be safe, we want to be steadfast in our faith, and we want to think.”
“...sometimes strength isn't swords and steel and fire, as we are so often made to believe. Sometimes it's found in quiet, gentle places.”
Source: Divine Rivals
“Walking away is not a sign of weakness; rather, it is a testament to our strength in being able to release what no longer serves our welfare and selflessness.”
Source: there has never been ANYTHING false ABOUT HOPE
“In the old romantic comedies, those of our childhoods, there was always the running scene, was there not? Through the crowd. Dashing, not a moment to spare. To the choice that should’ve been clear as day. To destiny. When you know how the rest of your life should be lived, you want to start the rest of your life as soon as possible.
My destination, though—not a man, but my true and best self.”
Source: Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility