Quotes About Strength

You'd be surprised what a person can live with," Dan said.

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend

I kill with my heart, motherfucker

good people shine brighter in dark times.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

There was power in that music, a power which seemed to most rightfully belong to all the skinny kids, fat kids, ugly kids, shy kids—the world's losers, in short.

It was so simple, but it was a revelation: what you did for yourself was what gave you the power.

That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what.

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

And sometimes before I went to sleep I'd think: This is how, this is how you pay off bein' a bitch. And it ain't no use sayin' if you haven't been a bitch you wouldn't have had to pay. Because sometimes the world makes you be a bitch.When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light and then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

Life is too sweet to give up without a fight, don't you think?

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow—my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it.