Christopher Reeve Quotes

No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Nothing hits harder than that: nothing more frustrating than your body giving up on you before your heart does.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

You have incredible lives ahead of you. You have incredible things that you can accomplish. If you feel that, you will have an amazing life. Do not let anything build a wall too high for you to get over. And I know that might seem very cliche, but I've had alot of friends who had hurt themselves. And when you're younger, a lot of that stuff is so temporary. You can get through it. You're stronger than you think. You'll ALWAYS be stronger than you think. Feel with your heart and do what you want.

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.

Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.