Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.

Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling

It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.