William Wordsworth Quotes

You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

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.

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.