Quotes About Strength

I draw on the work of Piaget (1968) in identifying conflict as the harbinger of growth and also on the work of Erikson (1964) who, in charting development through crisis, demonstrates how a heightened vulnerability signals the emergence of a potential strength, creating a dangerous opportunity for growth, a turning point for better or worse (p. 139).

In God is a woman like yourself.

I found Goddess in myself and I loved her fiercely is saying Female power is strong, the divine principle, the saving and sustaining power, is in herself.

I was the breakable one. Women always are. It's not so much a question of one big disappointment, though. It's more like a thousand little disappointments raining down on top of each other. After a while it gets to seem like a flood, and the first thing you know you're drowning.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.

If I were a seagull I wouldn't have to stick around If people argued- I would fly off, swerve, wheel, dip, scream. a thousand wings of company if I have friends two strong wings of my own If I don't

Caroline B. Cooney

I must remember that. Things become what you expect them to become. But I am granite. Nothing can shatter me.

He would have said Stephen was a sort of human tire iron;

arms, her black African arms, with

Leaving the Connecticut River March 8, 1704 Temperature 40 degrees They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks, and in the morning Mercy understood why bears spent the whole winter sleeping. It sounded good to Mercy.

Stephen was shaped like a tire iron, all his bones a little too long:

manipulation is the art of making another person's spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.

Having to say, "If this is what I must accept, so be it," can feel like chewing glass, but not being able to accept what you cannot change is like having to swallow those shards of glass.

With you, God, all things are possible, including my healing.

any choice made from faith has the full power of heaven behind it—which is why "faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain.

Don't waste time by thinking, acting, or praying like a victim. Feeling victimized only adds to your illness, and should it become a full-time state of mind, it would qualify as an illness in itself.

Estamos hechos para utilizar nuestros recursos interiores, a fin de encontrar la fuerza material para dejar atrás creencias y comportamientos anticuados y vernos de un modo nuevo y sano.

Women can be strong, Colum. Very strong when they have to be or when they're forced to be. On the outside we are like little rose petals, all soft and sweet, but on the inside we're often made of something a lot tougher because we have to be

A lady kept up appearances and never lost her dignity—even when her world had just shattered around her in the stall of the women's bathroom.

Living isn't for wimps no matter what age you are

Carolyn Brown

You know there's sunshine back in behind most storms.