Quotes About Strength

I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up but I'm beautiful.

Most important: Don't start trying to become the perfect woman/wife/mother figure in an effort to convince him that you're the woman he's looking for. This is the time for you to remember that you are a smart, independent, emotionally secure woman who should be asserting her own sense of identity.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Porque no hay nada como la pura fuerza de los números para retirar capas de confusión y contradicción.

Failure may be an option but quitting is not.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. —Ovid

A wound only begins to heal when you make it scream. Pain is the key, a message from the brain that the blood flows again into mending flesh, that your will shall conquer weakness. If you lie there and try to fight it, you'll simply rot.

Whitehead was not an expert, an official, an authority. He was a local. That was his great strength.

To a certain extent, Ruef's and Burt's research is a validation of the celebrated "strength of weak ties" argument first proposed by Mark Granovetter

It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities. . . . I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

as Thomas Pynchon wrote in Gravity's Rainbow, "It is not often that Death is told so clearly to fuck off.

He's a carnivore, thinks Lion, always remember he's a carnivore.

Women can be a rough trip, but there's no better ride on earth.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

There are but three groups worthy of respect," wrote Charles Baudelaire, "the priest, the warrior, and the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.

By failing to take note of the gifts of modernity, social critics poison voters against responsible custodians and incremental reformers who can consolidate the tremendous progress we have enjoyed and strengthen the conditions that will bring us more.

I am a superman: hard, cold, terrible, without feelings and without conscience.

And no, the extra years of life will not be spent senile in a rocking chair. Of course the longer you live, the more of those years you'll live as an older person, with its inevitable aches and pains. But bodies that are better at resisting a mortal blow are also better at resisting the lesser assaults of disease, injury, and wear.

I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.