Quotes About Strength

When your essence is that powerful, you have to learn how to harness your abilities and control them." "My essence?" Wasn't that a brand of shampoo? Day, Kristen (2014-09-22). Forsaken (Book #1) (Daughters of the Sea) (p. 95). Kristen Day Books. Kindle Edition.

When all of your defenses were stripped away, the only thing left was surrender. Only then could you see the true size of the burden a person carried. Only then could you see the toll it had taken on their soul.

The sand and the sea bowed to her glory; reveling in her presence and soaking up her beauty.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that God has a plan for our lives even when things seem to be falling apart. Trust Him with all your heart, dear. Trust yourself. Your faith is bigger than you realize.

Running has taken me in and continues to comfort, heal, and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a good runner because I am me; I am a good me because I am a runner.

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

I may not be desperate. But I'm close.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

Courage is fear you ignore.

We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.

She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.

As we know, there are lessons to be learned from history. Hope to be derived from hardships faced before. We've gone through bad times before and survived, even thrived. History has shown us the strength and durability of the human spirit, In the end, it is our idealism and our courage and our commitment to one another--what we have in common--that will save us.

You don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you.

I am in awe of her fire. Even if I'm the one she sets on fire.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

We are all fragile. It's the thing we learn in war

Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.

That was the first time her grandfather had leaned down and whispered, Be brave, into her ear. And then, Or pretend to be. It's all the same.

I think maybe love can just...dissolve." "No, it does not," her mother said. "So how do--" "You hang on," her mother said. "Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. —CÉSAR CHÁVEZ

It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul.