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Quotes About Strength

I wasn't making a mark," Anastasia told her. "I was putting my finger in a dyke. And it's still there.
~ Neal Shusterman
I won't allow it to control me. My current agony will not define me.
~ Neal Shusterman
If there was one thing she had learned, it was that monsters only had the power that you gave them.
~ Neal Shusterman
Tú eres bueno en las grandes dificultades, y eres un capullo en la vida normal.
~ Neal Shusterman
In the midst of their current helplessness, she felt empowered. How very strange.
~ Neal Shusterman
Either someone with no conscience at all, or someone with a conscience so deep and sturdy that its center could still hold in the face of light extinguished.
~ Neal Shusterman
Por suerte, el corazón se le había enfriado tanto que ya nada podía dañarlos.
~ Neal Shusterman
T)his is the true core of human nature: When we've lost the strength to save ourselves, we somehow find the strength to save each other.
~ Neal Shusterman
You're like a salmon swimming upstream, Lev offers. "It's inside you to do it. And it's inside me to help you get there." "Salmon." Cy looks thoughtful. "I once saw this poster about a salmon. It was jumping up this waterfall, see? But there was a bear at the top, and the fish, it was jumping right into the bear's mouth. The caption beneath— it was supposed to be funny—said, The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.
~ Neal Shusterman
And when the abyss looks into you—and it will—may you look back unflinching.
~ Neal Shusterman
Hope in the shadow of fear is the worlds most powerful motivator.
~ Neal Shusterman
If I am a weapon, then I'm being sharpened against a grindstone every day.
~ Neal Shusterman
Ô douleur! ô douleur! Le Temps mange la vie, Et l'obscur Ennemi qui nous range le coeur Du sang que nous perdons croît et se fortifie!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Para levantar un peso tan abrumador, Sísifo, sería menester tu coraje!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Yo sé que el dolor es la nobleza única
~ Charles Baudelaire
No se escandalice el lector de que esta seriedad arraigue en lo frívolo; recuerde que hay grandeza en todos los delirios, fuerza en todos los excesos.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Doar moartea consoleaz? ?i-ndeamn? a tr?i;e idealul vie?ii ?i e n?dejdea toat?,e elixirul care ne-anim? ?i ne-mbat? ?i care d? puterea s? mai tr?im o zi.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
~ Charles Bukowski
nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
~ Charles Bukowski
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
~ Charles Bukowski
she' mad but she' magic. there' no lie in her fire.
~ Charles Bukowski
the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
~ Charles Bukowski
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
~ Charles Bukowski