Quotes About Strength

What if Sam's heart got broken again? As with most kids who are fourteen, it has been spackled and duct-taped and caulked back together many times as it is. [p. 258]

How are we going to get through this craziness?' I asked. There was silence for a moment. 'Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe,' he said.

If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder.

What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day.

How are we going to get through this craziness?" I asked. There was silence for a moment. "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said.

When you are on the knife's edge—when nobody knows exactly what is going to happen next, only that it will be worse—you take in today.

Haters want us to hate them because hate is incapacitating. When we hate we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength.

Haters want us to hate them, because hate is incapacitating. When we hate, we can't operate from our real selves, which is our strength. Now that I think of it, this is such a great reason to give up our hate—as revenge, to deprive the haters of what they want.

In the face of everything, we slowly come through.

A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide.

we do endure, and that out of the wreckage something surprising will rise.

This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.

grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

What your giving can do is to help your readers be braver, be better than they are, be open to the world again.

God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence

This is a hard planet, and we're a vulnerable species. And all I can do is pray: Help. When

Haters want us to hate them, because hate is incapacitating.

Someone said the softest things in the world overcome the hardest.

And third, he makes me stronger, because you have to balance so much now—you have to reschedule everything you have to do—homework and him. It forces you to tap into more of you than you knew was there—parts that you didn't even know you had.

Mattie saw herself and Angela as the trees that grew out of cliffs and boulders above the ocean near Monterey—evergreen creatures, windswept, magnificent, twisty, gnarled pines growing out of the layers of rock, where maybe there had once been some nutrition, maybe there had once been soil from which the trees had sprung, but then the soil had blown away, and they still grew.

I have a quote taped to my office wall from an anonymous source that says, 'Love is hard. Love is ... seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.

Rider to your mate be true Follow heart in deed and do All the best your strength can find So you will rest in heart and mind

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.

Physical injury is the least of the harmful accidents that this universe inflicts on its inhabitants; it is soonest mended.