Quotes About Strength

the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look...

each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings...

good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...

you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John Gilstrap

You'd have made a helluva dancer, Big Guy,

Life is tough, but I'm tougher. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.

you are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok. Be the hero of your own story and never, ever let them make you the victim.

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

Rest if you must, but never quit.

When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.

God knows the burdens you carry and the tears you shed. He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams and broken lives. Trust Him; He never fails.