"If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise."

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Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.68, Harmony

Martha Stout

#Pain Quotes #Acting Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412
“The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.”
“I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.”
“I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.”
“My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.”
“One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.”
“The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.”
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

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