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“There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.”

Feelings Artist Greater Stronger Deny Patriotism Nationality Matisse

Author:Georg Baselitz

“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

“Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings”

Feelings Dream Action Bigger Stronger Your Dreams Bigger Than Life Bigger Dreams

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.”

States Feelings Individual Goal Psychology Movement Theory Higher Stronger Strive Psychological Significance Yearning Compensation Inferiority Personal Power

Author:Alfred Adler

“Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.”

Ifs Feelings Form Artist Fit Activity Conscious Stronger Prepared Engaged Sincere Moderates Corresponding Being Sincere

Author:Herbert Read

“In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.”

Heart Feelings Nature Simple Paper Hundred Stronger Narrative Composer Vivid Folds Grandeur Ecstatic

Book:A Hero of Our Time

Source: A Hero of Our Time

“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”

Men Feelings Women Virtue Stronger

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.”

Ifs Should Wells May Feelings Passion Pure Hatred Stronger Innocent Enjoyable Lively Commendable

Author:Joseph Joubert

“It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.”

Children Feelings Strong Growth Emotional Serious Wall Consequence Stronger Prison Prisoner Repressed Emotional Growth Prison Walls

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition

“The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward.”