Quotes About Strength

Everything negative -- pressure, challenges -- is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing]

No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

My look, mind you, is not chocolate like Lauryn Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, or Naomi Campbell - it is pitch black and shimmering like the purple outer space of the universe. I am the charcoal that creates diamonds. I am the blackest black woman (41).

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Guns, we don't like to use 'emUnless our enemies choose 'emWe prefer to fight you on like a man andBeat you down with our hands, and bodyslam youAt the wild, wild west.

Self harm or suicide is never the answer. Don't let the haters win.

Giving up is what kills people.

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

You leave me tied up like a dog? Then you had better remember that this bitch bites!

When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed. The Enemy of Old fucking sighed . Dear gods, it'd finally happened to him. Happiness. Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.

She will see & know for certain that everything is going to be just fine. But this day, this first day,... & when the wings of change have brushed against her life yet again, she just wants to be pissed off.

We're women & we deal with it, & we do it in a way that somehow becomes a gift. Isn't it something that we can take something so painful it makes you drop to the floor & turn it into a life lesson that makes you actually glad it happened? That's what women do. We get on with it.

They don't want to cry, but it's an emotion that washes over them & covers their hands & arms & fingers & feet in a cleansing movement that's a bonding element that bonds & keeps them tied together, as if they are in a club for women warriors where teardrops, golden pure & sweet teardrops, come from a common river that runs through all women & holds them together in a way that Annie helped them to see & to live.

Somehow the human heart figures out how to move on. It isn't easy but the alternative is a bit much.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

Sisters-the ones we share last names with and the ones we choose-are the lining of every woman's soul.

The grieving, she knows, never ends, and all that remains is the miracle of love. And she holds onto that miracle as if to save her life.

It's going to be ok, you know that now, don't you? I know there will be something else, but I also know that it will be ok. It has to be ok.

I've often found myself in circumstances that were too big for me. But I've never faced anything in life that was too big for my family.

we should enter spiritual battles fully equipped with weapons of warfare. But we must not forget God's past victories in our lives, or we will lose heart and retreat in the heat of the battle.

Real love is a secret weapon that our enemy has no answer for.