Quotes About Strength

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

Love breaks my bones and I laugh

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

we must bring our own light to the darkness.

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself

she's half-insane, looking for an out; she's hard, she's scared, she's been fooled, taken, abused, used, over-used . . . but, under all that, to me she's the flower, I see her as she was before she was ruined by the lies: theirs and hers.

when I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns.         I study these creatures.         they are my teachers.

Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise, and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don't, don't, don't. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving.

sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.

the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream is being strangled. the nights you fight best are when the game is fixed, when the crowd screams for your blood.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us

The shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow wings through that skin. Little blades, she was helpless.

if you don't have much soul left and you know it, you still got soul.

I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

mainly thinking, well, I'm still alive and have the ability to expel wastes from my body and poems. and as long as that's happening I have the ability to handle betrayal loneliness hangnail clap and the economic reports in the financial section.

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs

Endurance is more important than truth.