„In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.“

„A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.“

—  Bette Midler American singer-songwriter, actress, comedian and film producer 1945

The Strip podcast interviewed by Steve Friess PODXIES.

„There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.“

—  Donald Miller, kniha Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

„Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be.“

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, kniha The Antichrist

Sec. 23
The Antichrist (1888)
Kontext: Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it—so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

„He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.“

—  Oscar Wilde, kniha The Canterville Ghost

Zdroj: The Canterville Ghost

„And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others“

—  Vikas Swarup Indian novelist and diplomat 1961

Zdroj: Q A: Slumdog Millionaire

„I am, I hope, very thankful that in the withdrawal of the powers and things of life, the good hope is left with me, which makes the contemplation of death a comfort — not a fear.“

—  Michael Faraday English scientist 1791 - 1867

Letter to Auguste de la Rive (1861), as quoted in The Philosopher's Tree : A Selection of Michael Faraday's Writings (1999) edited by Peter Day, p. 199
Kontext: I am, I hope, very thankful that in the withdrawal of the powers and things of life, the good hope is left with me, which makes the contemplation of death a comfort — not a fear. Such peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope, and there is the rest for those who )like you and me) are drawing near the latter end of our terms here below. I do not know, however why I should join you with me in years. I forget your age, but this I know (and feel as well) that next Sabbath day (the 22nd) I shall complete my 70th year. I can hardly think myself so old as I write to you — so much of cheerful spirit, ease and general health is left to me, and if my memory fails, why it causes that I forget troubles as well as pleasure and the end is, I am happy and content.

„Life is stronger than death.“

—  Pearl S. Buck American writer 1892 - 1973

„We are returned to mystery and the power of cooperating with life—rather than, as so often now, working against it.“

—  Elsa Gidlow Canadian-American poet 1898 - 1986

On organic farming, in Belasco, Warren James, 2007, "The Organic Paradigm" http://books.google.com/books?id=4-8Tcsb2PHwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT63#v=onepage&q&f=false, Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801473292, p. 69.

„It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.“

—  Lucy Lawless New Zealand actress 1968

On balancing work and family-life — reported in Barbara Yost, The Arizona Republic (April 15, 1996) "Actress Easily Conquers Role in 'Xena: Warrior Princess'", Chicago Tribune, p. 5.

„My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.“

—  Laura Amy Schlitz children's author 1955

„I've had this TV for 7 years, this is how it works. Power on - it comes on. Simple clicker, volume control - piece of piss. Works every time…. what the fuck's this? What am I doing? JACK!!“

—  Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948

The Osbournes television show

„I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.“

—  Alison Goodman Australian science-fiction writer 1966

Zdroj: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

„North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

Tweet by @realDonaldTrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992 (2 January 2018)
2010s, 2018, January

„Am I a free agent, or am I merely the manifestation of a foreign power? Neither appear sufficiently well founded. By the most courageous resolve of my life am I reduced to this! what Power can save me from it, from myself?“

—  Johann Gottlieb Fichte, kniha The Vocation of Man

Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 24
The Vocation of Man (1800), Doubt

„I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.“

—  James Baldwin, kniha Notes of a Native Son

Varianta: I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
Zdroj: Notes of a Native Son

„What is success? It is an inner, an indescribable force, resourcefulness, power of vision; a consciousness that I am, by my mere existence, exerting pressure on the movement of life about me.“

—  Thomas Mann German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875 - 1955

Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman] (1901). Pt 7, Ch. 6
Kontext: It is as though something had begun to slip – as though I haven’t the firm grip I had on events. – What is success? It is an inner, an indescribable force, resourcefulness, power of vision; a consciousness that I am, by my mere existence, exerting pressure on the movement of life about me. It is my belief in the adaptability of life to my own ends. Fortune and success lie within ourselves. We must hold them firmly – deep within us. For as soon as something begins to slip, to relax, to get tired, within us, then everything without us will rebel and struggle to withdraw from our influence. One thing follows another, blow after blow – and the man is finished.

„The stronger and more powerful a state, the highest and richer the life of its inhabitants.“

—  Alfredo Rocco Italian politician and jurist 1875 - 1935

As quoted in Modern Political Ideologies, Third Edition, Andrew Vincent, West Sussex, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 156

„I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.“

—  Queen Latifah American musician and actress 1970

Zdroj: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

„I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.“

—  Beatrix Potter English children's writer and illustrator 1866 - 1943