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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.