It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
Interpretation
Love is the strongest force that can overcome fear.
In this quote, Alan Paton suggests that love has the unique ability to counteract and resist fear, which often paralyzes individuals and communities. He emphasizes that love empowers us to confront our fears and challenges, highlighting its importance as a transformative and protective force in our lives.
In practice
A motivational speech about facing challenges in relationships.
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.
The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.
If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
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