Quotes About Strength

Jane's dream had ripped her heart from her chest, as if the past were a lion that could eat her alive.

Girls have to be dauntless," Mathilda said. "And twice as excellent

The words were terrible, but they didn't have any power.

Fear is the gift. It's how I will stay alert and alive.

I stared into the lion's eyes and knew that he could take me down so easily. He'd swipe me with his curved claws, clamp his fangs around my throat or my skull, kill me in an instant.

Protection came in many forms. My love of nature and my father, and their love for me, had made me strong and brave, and I had survived.

Abusers are weak. They trap women who have gigantic hearts, who want to help these poor, sad wounded birds.

one could never remind one's own daughter, or one's own self, too often of the power she had within.

And now everyone's afraid of everyone else. A child with diarrhea is abandoned. A grandmother who vomits is left to die. The People are losing touch with their old ways. Fear is driving them from the traditions that have made them strong.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.

It was all very well being a can-do independent twenty-first-century woman, but sometimes she just wished her dad was still around to take care of stuff like this.

Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a 'brave girl' for not crying, a 'good girl' for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence.

Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.

Life seems like a cup of glory held to my lips just now. But there must be some bitterness in it - there is in every cup. I shall taste mine some day. Well, I hope I shall be strong and brave to meet it. And I hope it won't be through my own fault that it will come.

He aprendido a considerar cada pequeña dificultad como una broma y cada gran dificultad como el adelanto de la victoria.

El humor es el más picante de los condimentos en el festín de la existencia. Ríanse de sus errores pero aprendan de ellos; alégrense en sus penas pero ganen fuerza con ellas; hagan un chiste de las dificultades, pero vénzanlas. Ana de la isla.

There are men who are too fragile to shatter. I belong to them too.

by the time I reached Nice, I felt my spirits fail. My youthful impetuousness had long since been destroyed: ennui had sapped my strength.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos

Only love can abjure power. Only love is strong enough to accept the weakness of not having power. Only love can outbid the offer of control made by evil.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.