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Force Quotes

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“The greatest power requires the gentlest touch.

If you have to intervene or force yourself on someone else, then what that's actually an indication of is that you don't actually believe in your own power.

Because if you believed in your own power - if you knew you were powerful enough to create the reality that you prefer - why would you need in any way shape or form to interfere with anyone else's process?”
Bashar

Kawai Strong Washburn
“There was this one philosophy class I been in at the university, where the professor was talking about force. He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don't got power.”
Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Alexandre Dumas
“Those who are coerced by force become our enemies, those who succumb to reason become our allies.”
Alexandre Dumas, The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

Anton Chekhov
“He belongs to the class of simple-hearted, practical, and dull-witted people, prompt in carrying out orders, who like discipline better than anything in the world, and so are convinced that it is their duty to beat people.”
Anton Chekhov, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories

Kawai Strong Washburn
“He said people think force and power is the same thing, but really force is what you use when you don't got power.”
Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Jyoti Patel
“Sometimes,
girls like her give up
on their own happiness
for the welfare
of fragile men
for several years
but oh,
the day they choose
to leave such evil souls behind
and starts to walk alone,
none in this entire universe
can stop her force
- Under construction”
Jyoti Patel, ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

Ali Smith
“... free spirit arrives on earth equipped with the skill and the vision capable of blasting the tragic stuff that happens to us all into space, where it dissolves away to nothing whenever you pay any attention to the lifeforce in her pictures.”
Ali Smith, Autumn

Donna Goddard
“If we learn not to grab, insist, manipulate, or force then the precious moments have more chance of just appearing, usually when we are not looking. They may even stay a little longer, if we do not grasp onto them insisting that they do not move. With practice, consistency, and commitment to the evolution of the partnership, something beautiful and meaningful has a chance of evolving.”
Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

Colson Whitehead
“A force from above held him down, and a counterforce from below bore him aloft. He hovered on unexceptionality.”
Colson Whitehead, Zone One
tags: force, life

Lauren Wilkinson
“I learned that a secret is power, that power in application is force, that force is strength, and strength advantage.”
Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

Mwanandeke Kindembo
“The person who has many friends, will be forced by necessity to create some imaginary enemies inside his mind.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo

Steven Magee
“A corrupt police force is the public face of a corrupt government.”
Steven Magee

Laurence Overmire
“No one is going to save the world by hating other people. That’s not to say we shouldn’t be angry about all the wrongdoing. Anger, however, is not the same as hate, though people often equate the two. Anger can be channeled into positive action, as a force for good. When our hearts are in the right place, we are working for the benefit of all humanity.”
Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

“Great betrayals of the soul - Imposing your world thought upon another.... Manipulating and forcing your will on others.... When you withhold love.”
Rosangel Perez

“Western men hear about girls who are sold and forced to sell their bodies, but no one here is forced to do anything. I come to the bar to work, …and if I want to have sex with a client, I have sex with him. If I don't, then I won't. No one forces me to do anything I don't want to do. [NGO workers} come here trying to give us condoms or save us, [but] how can they help me when I make more money than them?'
—Vy, twenty-two-year-old hostess in Naughty Girls”
Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

“Is there any force like faith”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Life is a present, a human can ever have, the only link to past and future time, a divine force to create miracles, a true gift to give it all.”
Anand Patwa

Émile Durkheim
“In volition, it was said, we grasp ourselves directly as power in action. It seems that once man has this idea, he needed only to extend it to things to create the concept of force”
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

J.R. Incer
“The most powerful force: Thought”
J.R. Incer, Boost Your Brainpower 365

J.R. Incer
“Inner-Peace is the force that lets you know that you are safe no matter where you go.”
J.R. Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness

Revan Badingham III
“No one ever gets dragged into things they don't want to.”
Revan Badingham III, To the Boys Who Wear Pink

“Reality needs life to exist,

does that mean reality forces life somehow to live?”
nebulaspage.org

Richie Norton
“Managers will be forced to become entrepreneurs and directly responsible for above the line branding and below the line profits...or they will be fired.”
Richie Norton

Steven Magee
“May the force of the Hawaiian spirits be with you.”
Steven Magee

“Faith is the only force, there is.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Mwanandeke Kindembo
“The individual who has many friends, will be forced by necessity to create some imaginary enemies inside his mind.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo

“No force is as great as faith.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Faith is the only force that can move mountains.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Laurence Overmire
“Be part of the evolutionary effort that keeps us all moving toward the light. Be conscious of what you think, say and do. Have the courage to learn, to grow and to understand. Be a force for good and be an example for others.”
Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

“You win by sensuality what you cannot win by force.”
Lebo Grand