Quotes about Power
Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.
— Paulo Coelho
The true lover is not the one who says: You need to be by my side and I need to take care of you, because we are loyal to each other, but the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom. And without fear of betrayal, he accepts and respects the other person's dream, trusting in the greater power of Love.
— Paulo Coelho
He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.
— Paulo Coelho
How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart
— Paulo Coelho
With the strength or our love and our will we can change our destiny as well as the destiny of many others.
— Paulo Coelho
Words are life set down on paper.
— Paulo Coelho
So it was in life. In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself. In order for us to understand the powers we carry within us and the secrets that have already been revealed, it was first necessary to allow the surface expectations, fears, appearances — to be burned away.
— Paulo Coelho
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
— Audre Lorde
A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A gun is not an argument.
— Ayn Rand
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.
— St. Augustine
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth