Quotes About Strength

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Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

We're not alone--at least, we're alone only if we choose to be alone. We're alone only if we choose to go through life relying solely on our own strength rather than learning to draw upon the power of God.

The last days are not for the faint of heart or the spiritually out of shape.

It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.

While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

The gift of the Holy Ghost is a gift of power. The Holy Ghost inspires and heals, guides and warns, enhances our natural capacities, inspires charity and humility, makes us smarter than we are, strengthens us during trials, testifies of the Father and the Son, and shows us all things that we should do. He helps us do more and become more than we could ever do or become on our own.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.

there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them...

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know. If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.

Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies.

Is the air okay? I texted. It hurts a little to breathe, my sister texted back. But we're okay. Jesus, I thought, is there a better and more succinct definition of grief than It hurts a little to breathe, but we're okay ?

Rowdy fought everybody. He fought boys and girls. Men and women. He fought stray dogs. Hell, he fought the weather. He'd throw wild punches at rain. Honestly.

Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!

Your mother is a better man than me. Mothers are almost always better men than men are.

I'm a freak with power.

Survival = Anger × Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.

And that's when I knew that I was going to be okay.

How does one survive these revelations? One just lives.

If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear.

It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.

Sherman Alexie

We sat there in silence. A masculine silence. Thick and strong. Oh, I'm full of shit. We were terrified and clueless.