Quotes About Strength

Parecía tan segura y decidida que Payne se sintió diminuta ante la sombra de su coraje. Diminuta y débil. ¿Quién era ella, después de todo? ¿Qué era: un reflejo o una realidad?

La verdad esencial de la vida, tal como John estaba empezando a entrever, no era nada idealista, y se podía resumir en pocas palabras: siempre pasan cosas malas, mierdas, mierdas y más mierdas. Y pese a ello siempre sigues adelante. Mantienes a tus amigos, a tu familia y a tu amor con la mayor seguridad posible. Y cuando te derriban, te levantas y sigues luchando. Luchas incluso cuando ya no te queda esperanza en la victoria. Maldición, es verdad, no te rindes jamás.

In the midst of chaos and death, a new family had been forged. One that as chosen as opposed to an accident of biology—and for that reason, more abiding and enduring.

No quiero que pienses que soy cruel." "La crueldad es diferente de la venganza." Bella se imaginaba que eso era cierto en el mundo de los guerreros.

Às vezes, o facto de sermos forçados a ser fortes era o suficiente para nos convertermos, realmente, no que devíamos ser.

No voy a dejar que caigas en la oscuridad.

Si alguien se atreve a hacerte daño alguna vez —declaró Qhuinn en Lengua Antigua—, prometo perseguirlo hasta verlo atado a una estaca ante mí y dejar su cuerpo en ruinas.

I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of anything." She lifted her chin. "When it comes to protecting the lives of my young and the male I love, I will lay my life down in the path of their destiny, and if you beat me to death because of it, I will rise from the dead and haunt you to the point of insanity. There is nothing you can do to me that will make me back down. Nothing.

You were the backbone of the person I became, the person I always wanted to be.

I always thought I was thought and independent, that I could do everything alone. Turns out I'm not as tough as I'd like to think I am.

Then quit sitting here like a whiny pussy and go do something about it.

You're a stubborn woman, Evelyn.

It's okay to fall apart, Gavin.

I'm scared Gavin. What if I can't do this?

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, I am only human--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.

No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. He

No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

I can't think of anybody…who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me

In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.

Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you.