Insightful Strength and Perseverance Quotes

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
August Wilso

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
Marcus Aurelius

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
Robert H. Jackson

Don't wish me happiness — I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Inspirational Romantic love quotes

Rob Hefferan Art

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!
W.Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
W.Shakespeare, Othello

God gives us love. Something to love he lends us; but, when love is grown to ripeness, that on which it throve falls off, and love is left alone.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Philip James Bailey, Festus

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The Exile's Choice by Victor Hugo

The Exile's Choice
Victor Hugo
From :Chatiments
translated by: Nelson R Tyerman

Since justice slumbers in the abysm,
Since the crime's crowned with despotism,
Since all most upright souls are smitten,
Since proudest souls are bowed for shame,
Since on the walls in lines of flame
My country's dark dishonour's written;

O grand Republic of our sires,
Pantheon filled with sacred fires,
In the free azure golden dome,
Temple with shades immortal thronged!
Since thus thy glory they have wronged,
With "Empire" staining Freedom's home;

Since in my country each soul born
Is base; since there are laughed to scorn
The true, the pure, the great, the brave,
The indignant eyes of history,
Honour, law, right, and liberty,
And those, alas! within the grave:

Solitude, exile ! I love them !
Sorrow, be thou my diadem !
Poverty love I, -- for 't is pride !
My rugged home winds beat upon;
And even that awful Statue wan
Aye seated silent by my side.

I love the woe that proves me strong;
That shadow of fate which all ye throng,
O ye to whom high hearts aye bow,
Faith, Virtue veiled, stern Dignity,
And thou, proud Exile, Liberty,
And, nobler yet, Devotion, thou!

I love this islet lonely, bold,
Jersey, whereover England's old
Free banner doth the storm-blast brave;
Yon darkling ocean's ebb and flow,
Its vessels, each a wandering plough,
Whose mystic furrow is the wave.

I love thy gull, with snowy wing
In pearls to the wind blithe scattering,
O ocean vast, thy sunny spray;
Who darts beneath hugh billows gaping,
Soon from those monstrous throats escaping
As a soul from sorrow flits away!

I love the rock, -- how solemn, stern !
Thence hearkening aye the plaint eterne
On the wild air around me shed,
Ever the sullen night outpours,
Of waves that sob on sombre shores,
Of mothers mourning children dead!

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James Joyce quotes .Quotes from classic literature

“But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..”

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Your battles inspired me-not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

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Des belles citations sur l'amour ,Verité et le plaisir de C.S. Lewis,Khalil Gibran et de Antoine de Saint -Exupéry

« Aimer, c’est d’être vulnérable. Aimez n’importe quoi, et votre cœur sera certainement fendu et peut être brisé. Si vous voulez être certain de le garder intact, vous devez donner votre cœur à personne, même pas à un animal. Enveloppez-le soigneusement avec des hobbies et des petits luxes ; évitez tout enchevêtrement ; enfermez-le en sécurité/à l’abri dans le cercueil de votre égoïsme. Mais dans ce cercueil, votre cœur changera. En sécurité, dans le noir, immobile, privé d’air – votre cœur deviendra impénétrable, irréparable. La seule place en dehors des cieux où vous pouvez être parfaitement à l’abri de tous les dangers et risques d’amour… est l’enfer. On se rapprochera de Dieu, non pas en essayant d’éviter les souffrances inhérents et propres à l’amour, mais en les acceptant et en les donnant à Lui ; jetant toute armure défensive. Si nos cœurs ont besoin d’être brisés, et si IL choisit cela comme la manière dans lesquels ils doivent être brisés, alors que Sa volonté soit faite. »
C.S. Lewis

La vérité est comme les étoiles : elle n’apparaît que dans l’obscurité de la nuit. La vérité est comme toutes les belles choses de ce monde : elle ne révèle son attrait qu’à ceux qui ont senti d’abord l’influence du mensonge. La vérité est une profonde bienveillance qui nous apprend à être satisfaits de notre existence quotidienne et à partager le même bonheur avec les autres.
Khalil Gibran

Allez dans vos champs et vos jardins, et vous apprendrez que l'abeille a plaisir à collecter le miel de la fleur, mais que c'est aussi le plaisir de la fleur que de livrer son miel à l'abeille. Car pour l'abeille la fleur est fontaine de vie, et pour la fleur l'abeille est messagère d'amour, et pour les deux, fleur et abeille, donner et recevoir, le plaisir est un besoin et un ravissement.
Soyez dans vos plaisirs comme la fleur et l'abeille.
Khalil Gibran

Si tu veux construire un bateau, ne rassemble pas tes hommes et femmes pour leur donner des ordres, pour expliquer chaque détail, pour leur dire où trouver chaque chose... Si tu veux construire un bateau, fais naître dans le cœur de tes hommes et femmes le désir de la mer.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Inspirational Nature quotes

Norway Landscape

The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom...
Nikos Kazantzakis

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

There is constant life in Nature, motion and development; and yet she remains where she was. She is eternally changing, nor for a moment does she stand still. Of rest she knows nothing, and to all stagnation she has affixed her curse. She is steadfast; her step is measured, her exceptions rare, her laws immutable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
Oscar Wilde

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Innocence and childhood quote by Osho

That's why children look so beautiful: because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration. Old people start looking very very dead. Hopes have leaked out, by and by, and only frustration -- a very bad taste on the tongue. Experience makes people bitter. Experience makes people lose their innocence, lose their hope, lose their trust. But it is not experience really -- because they wanted to make their dreams real, that's why. Otherwise you could remain as innocent to the very end of your life as in the beginning -- in fact, even more -- because the innocence that happens in childhood is just natural. It has not been tested against fire; it is very fragile. It has no crystallization in it. It is just a gift; it has not been earned. But when an old man is childlike, innocent, then nothing can destroy it. Then it has a solidity to it, then it is substantial; he has earned it.
Osho

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