Quotes About Strength

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even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.

Life expands or contracts in proportion to one's courage.

Oh dear, I sometimes think…whatever would I do if anything happened…But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, "come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking…!

Ne için buradas?n?" "Sinirden." "Ah, mümkün deÄŸil, gerçekten inanamam buna." "Tam anlam?yla doÄŸru," dedim coÅŸkum sönerken. Çelik gibi sinirleri olduÄŸundan kuÅŸku duyulmamas?ndan daha tedirgin edici ÅŸey yoktur bir kad?n için.

When the source of the anger is understood and enough of the old feelings are released, the natural force behind the anger can be transmuted into intention. When the anger is fully expressed over time, the powerful energy that was used first to deny that it existed, then to facilitate its expression, still remains. This energy can be transformed into strength of purpose, power of intention to shape life the way we want it to be.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

The Christian nationalist movement is not a grassroots movement. Understanding its appeal to a broad mass of American voters is necessary in explaining its strength but is not sufficient in explaining the movement's direction. It is a means through which a small number of people — quite a few of them residing in the Washington, DC, area — harness the passions, resentments, and insecurities of a large and diverse population in their own quest for power.

Katherine V. Forrest

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. WILLIAM STAFFORD

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move." JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Katherine Woodward Thomas

So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful. ETTY HILLESUM

It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

Sisterhood is powerful.

The way to overcome the impossible has always been the same. Don't fear the giants. The Lord is with you always. Just believe and fight! You already have the victory.

The central Jewish confession of faith is the Shema: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength" (Deuteronomy 6:4–5).

It's clear that love is the container in which broken hearts are rebuilt.

troubles. Lord Ransley had enough courage and

You'll mend, you may never let another man near you again, but you'll be strong. Woman are. When a man breaks he stays broken.