Quotes & Sayings About Strength Trackid=sp-006

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it. — Horton Foote

Sometimes he tries to catch her, wading frantically through earth that has turned to water, or sometimes through air. Sometimes she tries to catch him. They never catch each other, no matter what. — Colin Greenland

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends. — Wei Jingsheng

Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs. — Christian Louboutin

I knew something was wrong with me that summer, because all I could think about was the Rosenbergs and how stupid I'd been to buy all those uncomfortable, expensive clothes, hanging limp as fish in my closet, and how all the little successes I'd totted up so happily at college fizzled to nothing outside the slick marble and plate-glass fronts along Madison Avenue. — Sylvia Plath

Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried. — Preeti Shenoy

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative. — Richard Rorty

I think these books have resonated so strongly with people for two simple reasons: We're sick of being afraid and we're tired of hustling for our self-worth. We — Brene Brown