Quotes About Strength

You can't doubt so much, Psyche

She wasn't crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he'd seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn't that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother's life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.

Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

I am not a hero, I am not Odysseus, there are no gods or goddesses guiding me. All I have is myself. And Hex's sword.

Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them.

Take my eye, I say. I have another.

I climb through the rubble toward the door. It takes a long time, time enough for a Giant to see me from the blood-red stained-glass eye window and reach out to crush me in his hand the size of a tractor.

In every girl is a goddess.

Your dad's dead. But you aren't, baby.

You still cry too easily, but without your tears, at least, everything would burn.

Erra chi dice che le lettere guastano e' cervelli degli uomini, perché è forse vero in chi l'ha debole; ma dove lo truovano buono, lo fanno perfetto; perché el buono naturale congiunto col buono accidentale fa nobilissima composizione.

loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.

we are never strong enough for what we fear will hurt us. We combat it, finally, out of our deepest weakness.

Hubris, that was the word — believing you were too good, too strong, invulnerable. The world had a way of teaching you that you weren't invulnerable.

Nothing fuels bravery more than the lack of the will to live.

Just because you don't believe in the Lord doesn't mean his power isn't working for you.

Though fallen low God raised her up

Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way

Other birds fly in groups, only eagles fly alone

Wherever you go, let Christ be your refuge. Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers.

God will give you courage when you need it.

A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.