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• I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

  John Steinbeck

  Being Strong, Strong Women, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.314, Penguin

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• The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Night, Reality

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• Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

  Theodor Reik

  Children, Romance, Parent

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.166, Transaction Publishers

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• The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

  Anthony Storr

  Heaven, Glimpse, Spirit

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• A young girl's heart is indestructible.

  Esther Hautzig

  Girl, Heart, Youth

  Esther Hautzig (1968). “The endless steppe: a girl in exile”, Scholastic

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• Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

  Pema Chodron

  Life, Determination, Commitment

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Country, Brother, Good Life

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• You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.

  Susan Piver

  Belief, Weak, Gateways

  "The Importance of Sadness" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2011.

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• The universe is one of continual creation, so therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as important the loving essence within a given form, because that love is the foundation of our creative expression itself, eternal and indestructible.

  Joseph Curiale

  Love, Creativity, Creating

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• The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Looks, Unions, Constitution

  Texas v. White (1869)

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• We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Mirrors, Soul, Universe

  "Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology".

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• What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered. That Maori player was like a tree, a great indestructible oak with deep roots and a powerful radiance- everyone could feel it. And yet you also got the impression that the great oak could fly, that it would be as quick as the wind, despite, or perhaps because of, its deep roots.

  Muriel Barbery

  Powerful, Player, Wind

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• It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

  Ariel Gore

  Sex, Writing, Burritos

  Ariel Gore (2007). “How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights”, p.41, Three Rivers Press

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• They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.

  Robert Southey

  Life, Passion, Love Is

  "The Curse of Kehama". Book by Robert Southey, 1810.

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• Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.

  Anaximander

  Life, Immortal, Surround

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• One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.

  Genghis Khan

  Arrows, Broken

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• Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Eternity, Timeless

  Ken Wilber (2012). “The Spectrum of Consciousness”, p.88, Quest Books

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• If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.

  Walter Pater

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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• Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe

  Lord Kelvin

  Energy, Heat, Tendencies

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• In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Balance, Decomposition

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.98, editionNEXT.com

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• I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soul, Eternity, Activity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.108

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• We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.

  Deena Metzger

  Grief, Eye, Agony

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• Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

  Franz Kafka

  Men

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• What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Taken, Mourning, Faces

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.19, South End Press

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