Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Stichwörter: life power smile touch potential listen compliment caring kind-word
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
Robert HarrisScientia potentia est.
Knowledge is power.
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.
Stichwörter: power forgiveness own control kneel
Love without hope will not survive.
Love without faith changes nothing.
Love gives power to hope and faith.
Stichwörter: love power change faith hope survive
Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
Ralph Waldo EmersonStichwörter: art books power wealth beauty illusion culture emerson ralph-waldo-emerson behavior eloquence anderbo anderbo-com father-must gail-hochman jonathan-galassi rick-rofihe rofihe rrofihe vilcek-literature-prize whiting-award
For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. He knew he would regret it—in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of pain.
But was a woman's heart any purer, in the end?
That was the final truth I learned. All this time I'd thought myself better than my father, better than all those men who inflicted harm on a thousand innocents in order to punish the one man who had wronged them. I'd thought myself above the cravings that drove him. But I, too, was tainted with them, vengeance encoded into my blood. When the moment came I couldn't resist it, no more than a dog can resist chewing a bone that, splintering, makes his mouth bleed.
Already I was storing these lessons inside me. I would use them over the long years of exile to gain what I wanted, no matter what its price.
But Krishna, the slippery one, the one who had offered me a different solace, Krishna with his disappointed eyes—what was the lesson he'd tried to teach?
Stichwörter: power men women pride lessons
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoStichwörter: power philosophy idea
Never underestimate the power of a woman!
Archie AndrewsOften men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.
bell hooksStichwörter: love equality power men women relationships abuse
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