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Quotes About Strength

Linger not in your sorrows. You do not belong there.
~ Dodinsky
Every flower must grow through dirt.
~ Proverb
It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.
~ William Faulkner
I think it's good to get knocked around a little bit sometimes. I think it's good to rise from the fire... It's a good opportunity to rejuvenate your motivation, to see that hill and go climb it.
~ k.d. lang, 1997
At times, challenges hit with the force of a roaring, rushing waterfall. The true test, however, is whether you can put your arms up and enjoy the feel of the water.
~ Aviva Kaufman
Perhaps this was rock bottom. But then, she had thought that before, and there was always a little farther to fall.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Let the stormy sky be your prayer, raining faith down upon you.
~ Terri Guillemets
Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete — but try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that flowers can still grow through.
~ Terri Guillemets
Life leaves its bootprints all over us — we just have to keep getting back up.
~ Terri Guillemets
Soul connections are often formed through the currents of adversity.
~ Terri Guillemets
Let your joy scream across the pain.
~ Terri Guillemets
So they must find a way to repair their broken hearts by relighting the fire that is now dull within them. They should live for that.
~ Ishmael Beah
Die Emigration kann ein Zeichen der Stärke oder der Schwäche einer Nation sein.
~ Ismail Kadare
The pyramid is the pillar that holds power aloft. If it wavers,everything collapses.
~ Ismail Kadare
that in us may be health and wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Liberty.
~ Israel Dr Regardie
A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed.
~ Issac Bashevis Singer
Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.
~ Ivan Doig
Velika, prava ljubav pokaza?e svoju punu snagu samo onda ako uspije da od dvoje ljubavnika, slabih ljudi, na?ini stvorenja koja se ne boje ni promjena, ni nesre?a, ni rastanaka, ni bolesti, ni života ni smrti.
~ Ivo Andri?
Ja kažem sebi: Još ve?eras budi hrabar, ne drhti i ne boj se više nego što treba, a ve? sutra možda ne?e nam trebati ni hrabrosti ni utehe.
~ Ivo Andri?
Kod unutarnjih borba koje ?ovek vodi sa samim sobom i sa nepoznatim silama u sebi, važi više nego igde pravilo: ne predaj se nikad! - Ni predaje, ni ustupanja! A pre svega, što kažu u Bosni: ne veži tugu za srce!
~ Ivo Andri?
Da je cutanje snaga, a govorenje slabost, vidi se i po tome sto starci i deca vole da pricaju.
~ Ivo Andri?
Samo plivati! Isplivati iz hladne vode i okrenuti le?a svemu, i maštanjima o onom što je bilo, i ?ega nema, i što bi trebalo biti, i ovoj obali i ovom životu. Plivati i isplivati.
~ Ivo Andri?
Ponekad se cela ova šarena dnevna stvarnost našeg života zanjiše kao tanka kulisa i mi, za trenutak jedan, sagledamo ono što se nalazi iza nje. Od toga nam se zavrti u glavi, ponese nas laka nesvestica koja brzo pro?e, ali posle toga ?uvamo dugo se?anje na taj trenutak, kao saznanje koje nas krepi i daje nam snage da izdržimo ovu stvarnost na koju smo osu?eni.
~ Ivo Andri?
I kad oni koji me tla?e, truju i jedu, i koji za drugi život i ne znaju, nalaze u sebi snage, izdržljivosti i veštine za borbu, zašto da je ne na?em ja koji sam gledao i koji ?u opet videti sjaj drugog, lepšeg života za koji nijedna žrtva nije prevelika i nijedna cena previsoka?
~ Ivo Andri?