Quotes About Strength

A life, not merely an existence. That was her dream: a world in which her life and her choices were not defined by the rheumatic fever she'd contracted at fourteen, a life where she uncovered strengths heretofore unknown, where she was judged on more than her appearance.

He started to cry, and she pulled him into her arms. It took perhaps the greatest courage of her life to let go of him.

She had to believe there was grit in her, even if it had never been tested or revealed.

was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

Sometimes it feels like a strength and sometimes like a weakness, but I don't know how to stop loving him.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A

Everyone broke—and held themselves together—in their own way.

I can't," Mama finally said, and Leni thought they were the saddest, most pathetic words she'd ever heard.

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.

It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it. "Yes.

You blame yourself when they are the ones to blame." Rose gave her a steady, reassuring look. "Remember, cara, hard times don't last. Land and family do." TWELVE In November, the first winter storm battered them from the north, leaving behind a fine layer of snow.

You must stay strong." "By believing in God." "Yes, of course, but not only by believing in God. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous.

Jack says I am a warrior and, while I don't believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.

Nora's gaze was steady. "No matter how dark a place is, there are always moments of light. That's what I passed on to you and Caroline, my moments of light.

Elsa held her children's hands. They stood on the muddy bank and looked up to the bright heavens and sang hymns and Christmas songs, and by the end, none of them cared that the local churches denied them entry or that their clothes were ragged and dirty or that Christmas dinner would be small. They found strength in each other. Elsa and Jean looked at each other as they sang the words be unbroken.

A woman has to be tough as steel up here

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

Someone said to me once that Alaska didn't create character; it revealed it.

When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. There is nothing that can't hurt our kids, I swear...the irony is they need us to be strong

In the past days, she'd come to understand the importance of upheaval. The tallest mountains were created by violence and chaos; like them, a woman's independence was born of fire.

You shine a light on hard times. This is what your pictures do. You do not let people look away from that which hurts.

They couldn't touch my heart. They couldn't change who I was inside. My body...they broke that in the first days, but not my heart, V. Whatever he did, it was to your body, and your body will heal.

She tucked her chin, squared her shoulders, and set a new goal for herself.

being a doctor was a snap compared to being a single parent.