Quotes About Strength

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.

El amor ama las cosas difíciles.

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Psalm 27:14)?

His grace is sufficient.

His power is accessible.

The strength he received from Christ was not the strength to change, deny, or defy his circumstances; it was the strength to be content in the midst of them, to surrender to God's loving will for him (Philippians 4:11–13).

Selv den svageste uelskede ejer en gnist af det stærke heltebarn, dvs. en lille mulighed for at forvandle de andres Nej til et Ja til sig selv. At fornemme egen mangel peger på et uudnyttet potentiale til selvaktivitet.

Men netop den uelskede, som føler sig svag, har specielt meget brug for at give afkald på forældrekærligheden . Alt for megen energi er bundet til hans fortvivlende længsel. Mon det svage menneske, han anser sig selv for at være, overhovedet findes? Skal der ikke mange kræfter til at lade sig gøre så svag? Har styrken ikke skjult sig under svaghedens maske?

Never will I succeed in putting as much strength in a portrait as there is in a head. The mere fact of living demands such willpower and energy … ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

A little wolf is present in every one of us.

nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

When my childhood began coming back to me, I went off the rails for a bit. I became what you could charitably call "colorful." After a year or so of disgrace, I remembered that I was thirty-odd years old, no longer a child, that I had a calling of a kind, and I began to heal. Either childhood is a lot more painful the second time around, or it's just less bearable. None of us are as strong or as brave as the children we used to be.

matter what the bastards do. So what if my dad beat my mum, so what if my hubby fucked the babysitter, so

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, three hundred kilometers from land. She's alone. She has nothing to eat. It doesn't matter. None of it matters. She's alive; that alone gives her the upper hand.

rigor vitae

I've told you before, Daniel: roach isn't an insult. We're the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we're the ones with the stripped-down OS's so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee.

Virtue 'gainst fury shall advance the fight, and it to the combat soon shall put to flight, for the Old Roman Valor is not dead! Nor in the Italian's breasts, extinguish-ed.

Bizden uzakla?mad?kça bize görünmeyen s?hhat, itiyad?n verdi?i hissizlikle, sa?lamlar?n ?uurundan kaç?p nas?l ve nereye saklan?yor?

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