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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

“For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.”

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

“People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.”

“The weak can never forgive.”

“It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.”

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.”

“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”

“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”

“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong”

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.”

“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.”

“Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.”

“If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that the way it happens is "not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zechariah 4:6). This means that certain things will not be accomplished by human strength, but only by the power of God. The Holy Spirit will enable us to forgive even the unforgivable.”

“Get the hell out of my way!”

“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”

“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.”