Quotes About Strength

Don't you dare give up on me.

You have no choice but to live through whatever's happening. I mean . . . as opposed to what? If you're going to continue to live, then you're going to deal with it. You have no choice. You can say, 'I'm going to fall apart now.

Never be afraid to look, Raymond. It's always better to look. Whatever you're afraid of, turn toward it, not away. Once you're willing to do that, it loses all its power over you. Trust me. I know this. I don't always do it. But I really, truly know.

Luis comes along and decides that his definition of a man is someone who is not afraid to be kind. That takes courage.

trying to model what it means to be a man, but they don't truly know. They think it means be tough, feel nothing, betray nothing. And then Luis comes along and decides that his definition of a man is someone who is not afraid to be kind. That takes courage. Don't you think?

Never be afraid to look, Raymond. It's always better to look. Whatever you're afraid of, turn toward it, not away. Once you're willing to do that, it loses all its power over you.

Nothing's more dangerous than a girl,

His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.

I've practiced "alone" a lot, and I'm good at it.

But sometimes the hard parts of our lives come with something valuable attached.

So I guess the theme of this novel is, "Look for strength in unexpected places." Not only might you find it there, but it might be more beautiful and more hopeful than strength found anywhere else. Here's to strength and healing.

But it's a funny thing about your darkest moments. They have a life of their own. They come around because they've got you pinned. Because they can. The harder you try to push them back into the shadows, the stronger they grow. They draw power from your resistance.

Nobody said we would get out unscarred, I guess. Nobody said it was a beautiful work with no scars

it's a funny thing about your darkest moments. They have a life of their own. They come around because they've got you pinned. Because they can. The harder you try to push them back into the shadows, the stronger they grow. They draw power from your resistance.

People can do all manner of things if it's important enough. If a mother can lift a car off her son, maybe she can die at just the right time to save him.

She was the bravest, quietest girl she knew how to be at a time like that.

So I sort of broke into a million pieces but didn't let the pieces all tumble apart. Like I tried to just be cracked all over but not shattered.

can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.

It doesn't help anybody to say, "I'm overwhelmed" or "I just can't." If you have to, then you just do. She

Still, everyone of us has something that makes him sad... And no one can save us from all of it.

So, who's stronger, the man who looks truth in the eye, or the man who tells himself lies to make it go away?

Here the world is full of all these men trying to model what it means to be a man, but they don't truly know. They think it means be tough, feel nothing, betray nothing. And then Luis comes along and decides that his definition of a man is someone who is not afraid to be kind. That takes courage.

Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive.

He was not accustomed to crying in front of others, and he could not have said more without crying. More accurately, he was not accustomed to crying, period. He had not indulged that release because of a deep fear that, having allowed the tears to start, he would never find the end of them, or would find they had no end at all.