Quotes About Strength

But," he said, "British or otherwise, you are merely woman." "With all due respect," she replied firmly, "in my country, the king is a woman. And she never breaks her promise.

Listen to the beat. Play the sound of his voice over and over again in your mind. You try to turn down the volume but baby this speaker has no controls. Just close your eyes. Listen to the last notes of this solemn memory. Live honey, can't forget, but you gotta live cause you gotta prove them all wrong about you, gotta show'um you won't be the one to slip between the earthquake lines forming in this dry dirt...

I can't cry..not yet. I can't say goodbye..not yet. I can't lose you..not yet.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." —Maya Angelou

No woman is all sweetness." —Mme. Récamier

There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

Power is the ability not to have to please

Strong is on the inside, a root that keeps you standing whatever might hit you. But hard is only on the outside, this shield you put up to keep all the pain on the inside from showing. The soft inside is still there even when you don't let yourself see it. And the shell keeps you safe, but it also keeps the good things from penetrating; love and trust and joy.

I was regarded as fair-looking for one of my race, and for four years a white man—I spare the world his name—had base designs upon me. I do not care to dwell upon this subject, for it is one that is fraught with pain. Suffice it to say, that he persecuted me for four years, and I—I—became a mother. The child of which he was the father was the

The fallen angels arrived in Hell when they were thrown out of Heaven?' 'That's right.' 'They took over.' 'A small number of angels is stronger than a great number of demons. They're like the men with the guns. Except no one can take their guns.

But among the poor and weak and old my strength is obscene. How can I live without a commitment to help at least some poor creature? It's pity someone or pity everyone. And, because it is impossible to act on universal pity, my pity is liable to evaporate. I keep the stopper in. For without pity, and among you, what would I be?

When a mass extinction occurs, it takes out the weak and also lays low the strong.

What if our myths and teaching tales had purposely led humanity to believe that it was the ultimate sign of strength to nurture and love? What if the urge to care for children and nature and each other had been chosen as the most important tasks of any society? What if care as opposed to conquest had been the marker of virility? What if resources were granted to the people most skilled at peace making, healing, creating and opposed to those with brute strength and a pension for violence?

first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.

In their most broken moments they were brought to their knees; they were humbled; they were opened.

mythical phoenix bird who remains awake through the fires of change, rises from the ashes of death, and is reborn into his most vibrant and enlightened self.

For the warrior," says Trungpa, "the experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.

fearlessness is the product of tenderness.

Now he was emerging, like a phoenix from the ashes, with new wings and an open heart. I

She says, "You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

There is no dry land, he said; there is only fearlessness, which is to be found in the heart. This is the path to freedom. At

That is the first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.

Discovering fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart. I

It was tempting to believe that if you made yourself small and light, beneath notice, you might be allowed to persist nearly anywhere. But meek women were tossed out and forgotten: that was something she had learned from Bertha Truitt herself. What women needed to do was take up space. Become unbudgeable.