Courage and Strength

One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.

One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and assesses of burden!

The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others.

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Freedom lies in being bold.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road of truth; not going all the way & not starting.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.