Quotes About Strength

Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming.

one never really knows what one is capable of until the situation presents itself.

The wych elm's whole crown was gone, only the trunk left, thick stubs of branches poking out obscenely. It should have looked pathetic, but instead it had a new, condensed force: some great malformed creature, musclebound and nameless, huddled in the darkness waiting for a sign.

All that St. Kilda's gloss, that walk through old oak doors like you belong, effortless: I wanted that. I wanted to lick it off my banged-up fists along with my enemy's blood. This

There's no nipping women's ideas. Cut them down one place, they grow up another. You wouldn't know where you'd be.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

Over my own dead body was I going to stake myself down somewhere, being someone, that didn't have all the beautiful I could cram into me.

My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That's all life is, on this earth anyway.

You just give me one more good reason," Angela said to the house from the road, "and when I am finished with you, I will burn you to the fucking ground. Don't think I won't.

Your strength is the strength of stones. Suddenly

Beat the storm to feel the breeze !!

He might take her life, but he could never take her will, nor break her pride. She was a daughter of Pecht kings; he was naught but a feckless

Tall, lean, he was far more muscular than he appeared— and stronger

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.

In any turmoil or with any problem, as Tulku Thondup says, "The greatest source of help and strength is our minds.

When we trust that we are the ocean, we are not afraid of the waves.

When you know you're the ocean, you're not afraid of the waves.

The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga — hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine.

You can't possibly be afraid of trees.

You've stopped crying. I'm glad. I don't want you to cry anymore.

The strength to go on must come from within, not without, or it crushes instead of building up the heart.

Find the joy where you can, and maintain the rage where it's needed.

she and trouble knew each other rather intimately. No reason the end of the war would stop such a seemingly natural pairing, she supposed.' - Chapt 1, The Ghosts of Paris, Tara Moss

We sit like that until the sun bleeds into the night sky and the cracks in the wooden shed door glow pink. When this happens I know we've made it through the worst of it. Pain is like sadness; both are easier to bear in daylight.