Big Ideas tagged with "Strength"
- Shawn Phillips: The Gap
- Shawn Phillips: Strength Training: Good for Your Mind & Mood
- Joseph Campbell: Love Your Fate
- Shawn Phillips: Blueprint for Brilliance
- Deepak Chopra: Lose Your Fear
- Shawn Phillips: Habits vs. Rituals
- Shawn Phillips: Focus
- Shawn Phillips: Strength for Life
- Shawn Phillips: Too Old?
- Shawn Phillips: Alarming Stats
- Rollo May: Your Center
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He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.
~ David McCullough quotes from 1776
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Seeing things as they were, not as he would wish they were, was known to be one of Washington’s salient strengths.
~ David McCullough quotes from 1776
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[to his troops before entering battle:] Strength and Honor. Strength and Honor. Strength and Honor. Three weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be and it will be so. Hold the line, stay with me. If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled! For you are in Elysium. You are already dead! [soldier laugh] Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.
~ Maximus quotes from Gladiator
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Responsibility of any kind can seem intimidating and for this reason man may often be afraid of truly deep relationships with other human beings. A relationship suggests to him the most extreme of responsibilities. It implies a burden, a restriction of freedom, seldom the converse. A student in love class, for instance, commented, “I’ve always been afraid of deep relationship because of the responsibility it seemed to impose. I was afraid of the demands it would make of me and I worried I wouldn’t be able to meet those demands. I was amazed to find that when I did get the courage to form a relationship, I actually became stronger. I acquired two minds instead of one, four hands, four arms, four legs, and another’s world. In joining forces with someone, I got twice the strength to grow, with twice as many alternatives. Now it’s easier for me to love others. I am stronger and I am less afraid.” He had discovered an important insight.
~ Leo Buscaglia quotes from Love
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
~ Neale Donald Walsch quotes from Conversations with God
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Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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…the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention…miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.
~ Marlo Morgan quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under
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Rather than cripple, failure can strengthen. Depending on how we respond to them, blows can shatter us as if we were a cheap clay pot or temper us as they would steel.
~ Unknown quotes from Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's possible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest, imagine you are a person with a level 2 strength of character and attitude looking at a level 5 problem. Would this problem appear to be big or little? From a level 2 perspective, a level 5 problem would seem like a big problem. Now imagine you’ve grown yourself and become a level 8 person. Would the same level 5 problem be a big problem or a little problem? Magically, the identical problem is now a little problem. Finally, imagine that you’ve really worked hard on yourself and become a level 10 person. Now, is this same level 5 problem a big problem or a little problem? The answer is that it’s no problem. It doesn’t even register in your brain as a problem. There’s no negative energy around it. It’s just a normal occurrence to handle, like brushing your teeth or getting dressed.
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No one is immune to pain, and it shouldn’t be denied when it exists. The key is to know that you can lead a productive and meaningful life no matter what the external circumstances are. What positive thinking does is offer a power boost to help you handle whatever life throws at you. Your “bad breaks” do not dominate your life; your indomitable strength does. And when you feel that indomitable strength, you really can handle any of your fears from a position of power—the kind of power that really can make good things happen.
~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
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In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow’s fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.
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Your play account is also designed to strengthen your “receiving” muscle.
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