quotes about strength

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine



Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ~Horace



If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. ~William Lyon Phelps



Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all. ~Frank Dorrance Hopley



The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. ~Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris



Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~Joe Clark



We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard



One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ~Golda Meir



My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill. ~William Sharp, The Lonely Hunter



I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. ~Gene Perret



Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing. ~Duane Dewel



You know you're a cheerleader when you have to yell, kick, and scream to get what you want. ~Author Unknown



I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating. ~D.H. Lawrence



We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people. ~Pierre Omidyar



Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Author Unknown



So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. ~Elbert Hubbard



A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours. ~Ray Fitzgerald, in Boston Glove, 1970



Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. ~Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ



There's such a thin line between winning and losing. ~John R. Tunis