Quotes About Strength

Enduring their mother was what bound them together. And while they might have had three different dads, they were always 100 percent sisters. Never half sisters.

Sisters forever. Victims no more.

Enduring their mother was what bound them together. And while they might have had three different dads, they were always 100 percent sisters. Never half sisters. Their sisterhood was the one thing the Knotek girls could depend upon, and really, the only thing their mother couldn't take away. It was what propelled them to survive.

A higher power was never a crutch but a scaffold. Faith kept me steady when I needed it most.

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she's very connected to her sisters. Adversity and courage have forged a strong, impenetrable bond between them.

reassuringly.

When somebody pushes, pushes, and pushes you into a corner, pretty soon you're not going to want to be in that corner anymore.

She'd learned from Nikki's experience that not rocking the boat didn't stop bad things from happening.

a visceral reaction to a word that scrapes at her like the talons of an eagle, cutting and slicing her skin until blood runs out.

To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain

All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

Fear is a wolf on a chain, only dangerous when you set it free. Sorrow exhausts itself in the net of forgetting. Anger, for all its fury, can be killed by a smile. Only hope goes on forever, because hope doesn't belong to us: it belongs to our ancestors, the first of our kind, whose brave love for one another gave us most of the good that we are.

But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.

No-one, and nothing, could make me very happy. I was tough, which is probably the saddest thing you can say about a man.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it.

The force is always with you, if you give up force

The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

The contours of all our virtues are shaped by adversity.

The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no matter what he was.