Quotes About Strength

Even though I knew little about money, I knew that I was the main support of the household.

Eu le accept s? m? îmbog??easc?, dar nu le las s? m? surpe. Socotesc c? cel care ÅŸtie s? se desfate în amintiri ÅŸi poate, totuÅŸi, s? le struneasc? e un adevarat b?rbat.

The myths that projected Jesus of Nazareth into a universe of archetypes and transcendent figures are as "true" as his acts and words; indeed, these myths confirm the strength and creativity of his original message.

I've become more political as I've got older; I haven't mellowed - I've billowed.

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive?

You put the fist in pacifist?

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

My mother was so confident of being rescued in life, one way or another or another.

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.

When I was living alone in Montreal, heartbroken over a lost love, she sent me a quote from Paul Valéry. One word per letter, thought, so it took me months to figure out. Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm... you will triumph.

Everytime I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really. - Nomi

La vida i la conservació de la vida són possibles fins i tot quan les circumstàncies semblen desesperants.

Tal com ho veig jo, el que hem decidit nosaltres, les dones, és que volem tres coses, i que hi tenim dret. Quines?, pregunta la Greta. Volem seguretat per als nostres fills, diu la Mariche. Se li escapa alguna llàgrima i li costa de parlar, però continua. Ens volem mantenir fermes en la nostra fe. Volem poder pensar.

Les dones del paller m'havien ensenyat que la consciència era resistència, que la fe era l'acció, que el temps s'esgota.

We mustn't do this. We mustn't play Hot Potato with our pain. Let's absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let's inhale it, let's digest it, let's process it into fuel.

you still have to eat.

we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

You're a small thing and you must learn to fight.

learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

We loved each other. We fought for each other. When worlds collapsed we were buried in the rubble together and when we were dug out of the rubble and rescued we all celebrated together.

Miriam Toews

?ovje?e, sjeti se da si ravan onome pred kim se ponizuješ, i ne ponizuj se! Hodaj uspravno, ne pla?i pred tu?im vratima, jer iza tih vrata za tebe nema nikoga, pljusni i pljuni, ali se ne ponizuj.