While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs. Louise Slaughter artbuildbusiness share on social
The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring. Eduardo Galeano brutedarefantasy Change image and share on social
It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ. Ellen G. White bearburdenchrist Change image and share on social
If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this. Ellen G. White acceptaffectiongod share on social
My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated. Emilia Fox angrybrainbreakdown share on social
When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes. Eric Fellner brothercoenkind share on social
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad bladedrawearth Change image and share on social
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. Thomas a Kempis attemptburdenexcuse Change image and share on social
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese dispositionincreaseounce Change image and share on social
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. Henry Drummond beautycharacterhome Change image and share on social