Quote by Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. O

Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese

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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be. – Cesare Pavese

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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – Cesare Pavese

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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. – Vaclav Havel

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Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. – Lawrence G. Lovasik

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