Powerful Force Quotes
![Leo Buscaglia quote: "We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful..."](/pic/77188/600x316/quotation-leo-buscaglia-we-are-no-longer-puppets-being-manipulated-by.jpg)
Some of us have a ragged faith. You cry for a long time, and then after that are defeated and flattened for a long time. Then somehow life starts up again. ... Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away when it would be helpful. Life is a very powerful force, despite the constant discouragement. So if you are a person with connections to life, a few tendrils eventually break through the sidewalk of loss, and you notice them, maybe space out studying them for a few...
Anne Lamott
I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try to understand and try to direct these complicated, powerful forces and at the very end of the struggle you've made no progress at all. That upon discovering that, you've raised to a lofty moral height, and you've accepted your fate, and somehow went on.
Philip K. Dick
![Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are..."](/pic/363645/600x316/quotation-lois-mcmaster-bujold-the-will-to-be-stupid-is-a-very-powerful.jpg)
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
Malcolm Gladwell
![E. O. Wilson quote: "Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the..."](/pic/156976/600x316/quotation-e-o-wilson-science-and-religion-are-the-two-most-powerful.jpg)