Quotes About Strength

And there was nothing you could do about a woman like that. She just turned herself into a hammer and you ran right into her.

Let the Queen do the fighting cos if you lose the King, you've lost everything.

Right at the bottom, at the tip of the root, is the fear of the dark and the cold, but once you've given darkness a name you have a measure of control. Or at least you think you have, which is nearly as important.

At that moment we knew that as long as we used our brains, we were not victims. By striking out to write our own ticket, we would grow up to be like our mother, winners.

From then on, we knew there could never be a problem bigger than Mom's ability to solve it.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, "Silence is the strength of our interior life.… If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope.

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect so much from myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase. And the energy we expend emotionally belongs to the hidden side of the moon.

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

We hold the moon in our bellies and fire in our hearts. We bleed We give milk. We are the mothers of first words. These words grow. They are our children. They are our stores and poems.

I am a woman with wings,' I once wrote and will revise these words again. 'I am a woman with wings dancing with other women with wings.' In a voiced community, we all flourish.

Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in the front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady.

words are much stronger than I am.

A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.

Desert strategies are useful: In times of drought, pull your resources inward; when water is scarce, find moisture in seeds; to stay strong and supple, send a taproot down deep; run when required, hide when necessary; when hot go underground; do not fear darkness, it's where one comes alive.

Good work is a stay against despair.

we need not lose hope, we just need to locate where it dwells.

If ever there was a story without a shadow, it would be this: that we as women exist in direct sunlight only. When women were birds, we knew otherwise.

How do we not fall into a perpetual state of despair? My father said to me the other day, We have to stare it down. IT being grief. IT being everything he can't control like age, the waning strength of his legs, or the loss of another son.

The whole world isn't out to hurt you, Jane. - Dean Because I don't let it - Jane

Asl?nda hepimiz yaral?y?z. Sadece baz?lar?m?z?n yaras? di?erlerinden daha fazla belli, o kadar.

Maura dertli bir kahkaha att?. Bir ili?kinin dayand?r?labilece?i en sa?lam ?ey trajedi.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.