Don't be afraid of your own strength.
Interpretation
Embrace your inner strength without fear or doubt.
This quote encourages individuals to recognize and accept their own strength, suggesting that fear of one's capabilities can hinder personal growth and success. It highlights the importance of self-confidence and the potential that lies within each person, urging them to harness their inner power and not shy away from challenges due to self-doubt.
In practice
A motivational speech at a personal development seminar.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
Our men and women in uniform make enough sacrifices for our country. Their credit rating should not be one of those sacrifices.
I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.
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