Quotes About Strength

She did not move, and now she was the Amazon as well as the schoolmistress. She really was a disconcerting female.

You never did collapse. Only your eyes showed what was going on inside.

We can all be hurt.

for all other women. He

Life has kicked us in the teeth, Abby, and I am about to kick back. Hard.

it. And if you ever strike me, I shall hit back. If you ever use me in anger or out of a wish to punish, I shall leave you.

Tenemos la costumbre, me parece, de creer que el amor es una de las emociones humanas más débiles. Pero no es débil en absoluto. Tal vez es la fuerza que discurre por todo y lo une todo. Simplemente amor.

Philippa knew why her mother had kept everything bottled up inside. It was the innate compulsion some people—particularly women?—felt not to make a fuss, not to display their suffering and humiliation to the whole world or even to those who are nearest and dearest to them.

However, I did not go home, and I must face him. And I shall do so without a blush or a tremor. I shall not give him the satisfaction of knowing that I even remember yesterday and last night.

Maybe they do not have a breaking point. But even if they do, do you care, Abby?

She must not let him ruin the tranquility of her life again. She would not let him do so!

Tonight she would not believe in tragedies or impossibilities.

What if love was the one thing that always survived and could carry one through to the other side of suffering?

that he really had suffered

A passionate Freyja was a keg of powder exploding. A tender Freyja was far more deadly.

La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.

She willed herself to show no emotion. She steeled herself for the kiss on the hand that she half expected. She came near to crumbling when he kissed her instead, very gently, on the lips. Had he not gone immediately, in fact, without even stopping to look into her face again, he would have seen the tears spring to her eyes; he would have heard the sobs that felt as if they would tear her ribs apart. But he had gone.

The memory of his treachery would harden her against her own heart.

If we can only face our worst fears and move forward into them and through them instead of cowering or turning tail and running as far from them as we can, then we will never have to fear anything ever again.

It is what we do with the pain, though, how we allow it to shape our character and actions and relationships that matters.

She must never allow herself to feel either regret or remorse.

we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.

Victims wallow. They fret over what they cannot control. And I'm no victim.

Toltec system teaches that we are no longer little babies, or helpless. We are strong enough to change everything. No matter what conditions you find yourself in, you have the power to change them. Even those who have been raped can change their reality. The effects of your wounds are lessened if you realize you are dreaming. You can change your inner movie because you are the director, writer and actor, and you have all the power to change the story you are living.