It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. — Edmund Hillary

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Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. — Marcus Aurelius

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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. ― John F. Kennedy

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. -Charles Lindbergh

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The power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted. ― Joan Didion

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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out. ― Katherine Dunham

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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