Quotes About Strength

Carol Higgins Clark

An oracle must cross the moat of logic and reach the inner poet that resides, perhaps repressed but nonetheless alive, within all of us. The I Ching helps us tune into our feeling consciousness through imagery and metaphor, and this, we find, is the path of clarity, of both strength and tolerance, of gentle humor, and of love.

Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet.... teaching us to root ourselves into the earth.... Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth.

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me. —Ruth Mendenberg

Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all? —Rivka

S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop. —Ruth

You're a coward," she says, "afraid to feel anything in case you get hurt. Well, look around. Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all? I stare at her. "Fine, I'm a coward. I'd rather be a coward than have to feel anything ever again.

You've lived through all this, Ruth. Do you know how strong that makes you? Ruth, it takes more work to be afraid than to ride the fear, to live with the fear, to accept it.

I agree that we can't be weak. We can fight when attacked, of course, but should we become the attackers?

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it—it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you.

Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?" With no hesitation, she answered, "Mental toughness.

when they see it—it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even

All at once, she understood what a champion was: someone who could raise their level of play when they needed to. When the match is on the line, they suddenly "get around three times tougher.

For Jordan, success stems from the mind. "The mental toughness and the heart are a lot stronger than some of the physical advantages you might have. I've always said that and I've always believed that." But

Y yo no me voy a rendir; no voy a dejar que te rindas. Si te quedas sentado apoyándote contra la pared todo el día, acabarás por apoyarte en algo o en alguien toda tu vida. Y la genialidad que hay en ti se irá a la basura.

Those who are hiding out in cowardice want company!

Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.

My face had a disagreement with a fist about occupying the same space. The fist had the upper hand.

Stronger men than he had collapsed beneath life's unpredictable sorrows. He could not look to others for his salvation; other people were unreliable, changeable. He could only count upon his own resources, his own courage, his own need for truth.

In the calm violence of your being, desire.

One day you'll wake up and you'll realise that you're OK again.

This was life. You made the mistakes, you took the knocks, you carried on, you got stronger. Giving up, rolling over, dying – that wasn't an option.

good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.