Mahmoud Darwish Quotes

Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

where the world ends is where you must begin

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

When we talk about adversity, this is the moment when character really gets tested. When things aren't going the way you want and you can't see anyway that they're going to go the way you want. That's kind of when those old virtues really become valuable and vulnerable also.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.

I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.

When you choose to overcome something that could paralyze people, you have the choice to either let that happen or use that as a stepping-stone to something new and different in the future.

The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."

Be a victor , not a victim.

Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

The victory's in believing.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.

You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.