Quotes About Strength

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character

Why the anchor?""Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.

You feel pretty, manly to me, " I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes."And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.

Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me the value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed to You through my path of pain. Show me that it is through my tears that I have seen rainbows.

We must be the willow, not the oak, in the lowering storm.

If you have no more tears left to weep, then don't weep. Laugh.

She whirls around and around in her red English stockings and white moccasins, her cloak of wampum and feathers flying out around her like the wings of a great hawk.

I told my old friend Julia that Tropical Storm Julia had just slammed into the Georgia coast. She said, "We'll have to watch me closely as I seem to be gathering strength.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

Amy Koppelman

If her history has taught her anything it's that hate, not love, is the more powerful of the two emotions. Anyway

If the castle is hope, memory is the moat that surrounds it.

IT IS one thing to accumulate woes bit by bit over the course of a lifetime. quite another to enter this world with impossible burdens, by no doing of your own, and find yourself unequipped to handle them and/or find that, despite every conceivable effort, they are mercilessly unshakable.

Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands alone. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here.

Scars can mark you for greatness.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind -- poom!-- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.

I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.