I mention the episode because it identifies
the true strength of feeling to which the passionate fan — if that is not tautological — is subjected to, and his helplessness in the face of it.
Not exact matches
It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense
of its glory in the midst
of the sober or bleak or sordid realities
of day to day life, and who can
feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source
of sweetness and
strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the
true and spiritual seed
of the risen Christ.33
People like Amistavia only
feel «strong» by bullying the «weak»...
True strength of mind does not
feel threatened by alternative or opposing world views.
And let us not forget that along with this newly found wellspring
of strength we were still proud
of and practicing our German heritage, and often we
felt that we were the only
true Germans.
The eponymous land
of Skyrim has always
felt a bit like a tourist destination, with a host
of distractions to delight and entice anyone that would set foot in it, but the game's
true strength doesn't come from the density
of potential experiences and quests.
The ability to continue moving when you are
feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign
of true mental
strength.
Many
of these proposals seem to me very unlikely to be
true based on intuitive
feeling about the orders
of magnitudes
of the
strengths of the mechanisms.
As he writes, «Maybe the
true human condition is learning that we will often
feel weak when we view ourselves as just one
of many, but we have
strength in our groups.