„When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become… as strong as they can be.“

Quelle: Clockwork Prince

Variante: You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
Quelle: For One More Day

Il n'y a que les personnes qui ont de la fermeté qui puissent avoir une véritable douceur.
Variant translation: It is only those who are firm who can be genuinely kind.
Maxim 479.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

Quelle: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

The Hindu, "Things that happen only in India", Sunday, Aug 13, 2006 Available Online http://www.hindu.com/mag/2006/08/13/stories/2006081300010300.htm
2000s

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

2010-, The City: Beijing, 2011

Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President (8 April 1975)
Kontext: Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither … can history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique … something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Quelle: The Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel The Main Thing

Quelle: The Handmaid's Tale

Quelle: In My Own Way: An Autobiography 1915-1965 (1972), p. 6
Kontext: Do you suppose that God takes himself seriously? I know a Zen master, Joshu Sasaki, who has let it be known that the best form of meditation is to stand up with your hands on your hips and roar with laughter for ten minutes every morning. I have heard of a sophisticated shaman-type fellow who used to cure ringworm on cows just by pointing at the scars and laughing. Truly religious people always make jokes about their religion; their faith is so strong that they can afford it. Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.

Hung Hsiu-chu (2015) cited in " Hung dismisses ‘immediate unification’ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/09/13/2003627609" on Taipei Times, 13 September 2015

Quelle: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 8
Kontext: Evil is never truly strong, for it is born of fear. Why did he fall so easily? Because he tested your strength and saw the possibility of death [... ] had he possessed true courage, he would have fought back. Instead he froze — and died.

Crois-tu qu'on puisse être bien tendre lorsqu'on manque de pain?
Part 1, p. 98; translation p. 48.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)

"Psalm"
Poems New and Collected (1998), A Large Number (1976)
Kontext: And how can we talk of order overall
when the very placement of the stars
leaves us doubting just what shines for whom?Not to speak of the fog's reprehensible drifting!
And dust blowing all over the steppes
as if they hadn't been partitioned!
And the voices coasting on obliging airwaves,
that conspiratorial squeaking, those indecipherable mutters!
Only what is human can truly be foreign.

Self and World (1957)

Brisbane, Australia (March 17, 1982) as reported in Maharaj, Visions International (1998)
1980s