Quotes About Strength

In Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud's compendium of memorable women and men from North Dakota, "Mustache" Maude Black, for that was the name of my grandparents' benefactress, is described as not un-womanly, though she dressed mannishly, smoked, drank, was a crack shot and a hard-assed camp boss. These

Eddy tells me his book is basically an argument against suicide. Every page contains a reason not to kill yourself.

And so when they tell you that I was heartless, a shameless man-chaser, don't ever forget this: I loved what I saw. And yes, it is true that I've done all the things they say. That's not what gets them. What aggravates them is I've never shed one solitary tear. I'm not sorry. That's unnatural. As we all know, a woman is supposed to cry.

Neither life, nor angels, nor principalities nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor any other creature will separate you.

She was as sturdily made as a captain's chair, yet drew water with graceful wrists and ran dancing across the rutted road on curved white ankles.

yes. But within a month of enduring this great thirst

As I feel into a darker sleep, I understood that I had learned something. Now that I knew fear, I also knew that it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai

To one born in the phenomenon of strength, weakness is an alien lie.

Each of Old Tallow's feet seemed to take up as much space as a small child, but Omakayas didn't mind. Warily, but completely, she loved the fierce old woman.

She took detailed notes and dispatched a servant to the Indian missions to procure fine lace produced by young women whose mothers had once worked the quills of porcupines and dyed hairs of moose together into intricate clawed flowers and strict emblems before they died of measles, cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis, and left their daughters dexterous and lonely to the talents of nuns.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength

L'amour c'est comme l'alcool, plus on est impuissant et saoul et plus on se croit fort et malin, et sûr de ses droits.

Szybko siÄ™ starzejemy, i to w sposób nieodwracalny. Zdajemy sobie z tego najlepiej sprawÄ™ po sposobie w jaki kochamy nasze nieszcz??cie. Natura jest od nas silniejsza, i tyle. Testuje nas w jednej roli, a pó?niej nie umiemy siÄ™ ju? od tej roli oderwa?.

Hay que pelear contra la desgracia con la misma fuerza que ella, hasta cansarla

She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In

Old and rundown as things may be, they still find the strength, the Lord knows where, to get older.

Odande se svejedno povratih žalostan put Vignyja, misle?i o tome kako mi svi ti ljudi, te stvari, te prljave i sumorne ku?e više uop?e ništa ne kazuju, onako izravno u srce kao neko?, pa da ni ja sam, koliko sam god možda djelovao poput lisca, nemam više dovoljno snage, osje?ao sam to dobro, da idem još dalje, tako, posve sam.

Maybe they thought they could make me go and commit suicide if they yelled loud enough. But either you have it in you or you don't.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

Justice was its own art, shining light into the shadows, complex yet ultimately as simple as can be: bringing balance, making things right. Helping women know that their experience, no matter how horrific, was their strength. It showed them that they were their own superheroes.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. —ALBERT CAMUS