Quotes About Strength

The greatness of Zemurray lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation. Bad things happened to him as bad things happen to everyone, but unlike so many he was never tempted by failure. He never felt powerless or trapped. He was, as I said

PITVITA ME TENET Ptuta m tenet.

A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

Your storm, Thlayli-rah. Use it.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

My courage— my spirit: it's so much less than it was. I'm afraid to let you rely on me.

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento, y romperás también las cadenas de tu cuerpo

Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

WE MUST HONOR our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down.  It's their duty to ridicule us, it's their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different!  And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card games philosophical: Ah, well, we can't toast 'em all . . .

I'm fine. Indestructible.

God doesn't protect anyone. Everyone's already indestructible.

Pienso que llega un momento en que la voluntad sencillamente se agota.No importa lo que yo piense ¿entiendes?.

She had done it. O, amazing grace. The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it. No net. No way back. Amazing.

How many you or I have outlasted doesn't matter, I think. There comes a time when the will just runs out. Doesn't matter what I think, see?

It took me a while to figure it out, but it was faster after I got around that mental block. Walk or die, that's the moral of this story. Simple as that. It's not survival of the physically fittest, that's where I went wrong when I let myself get into this. If it was, I'd have a fair chance. But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. It isn't man or God. It's something... in the brain.

Ich hatte Angst«, sagte er. »Leute, die keine haben, sterben jung«

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!

Her voice, delicate as it was, had the strength to it that made one realize why a teacup can stay in one piece for centuries, defying the changes of history and the turmoil of man.

He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance.

Bir ÅŸeyleri sürekli asaletle halleden insanlar var. O ÅŸeylerin ne olduÄŸunun önemi zaten yok.

Circumstances don't make a person, they reveal him or her.

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.