Quotes About Strength

She wasn't afraid. There had been so many more things to fear in life. Knowing she was loved by many people, even if they couldn't always be with her, was not one of them.

When I heard that Helen drank a bottle of whiskey and shaved off all her hair, I thought, This is it. She's going to kill herself. But of course I underestimated Helen. Stronger than her will to die was her will to endure, especially when she thought she was being tested.

Stronger than her will to die was her will to endure, especially when she thought she was being tested.

XXXVII Qualunque ben si fa, naturalmente nasce d'Amor, come del fiore el frutto, ché Amor fa l'omo essere valente

And being different? That turned out to the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers.

And being different? That turned out to be the best part of all. I found that with a little creativity, and a lot of dedication, any difference can be turned into something amazing. Our differences are our superpowers

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.

I do not ask for your abosolution. I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to so the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way. That, at least, has been my path

And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?

Geraldine Brooks

As wars dwindled to skirmishes and our strength grew, so David was able to spend less time with military commanders and more with the engineers and overseers who were fanning out throughout the land, digging cisterns, making roads, fortifying, connecting, and generally making a nation out of our scattered people.

You must school your mind and not let your fears be your master.

there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try to do the good of which our hands are capable for the people who come in our way.

Just as a lump of coal, under pressure, could become a diamond bit, Theo had learned to turn his anger into something he could use.

You were like a flame blown by the wind until it is almost extinguished. All I had to do was put the glass around you. And now, how you shine!

My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly.

She must not speak in a delicate tone. This is from the Koran. Things begun with a few words will continue to other things.

And he'd grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

This was a woman raised in a turbulent house, who had learned early to master herself.

Geraldine Brooks

There was something in her that could not, or would not, see the distinctions that the world wished to make between weak and strong, between women and men, laborer and lord.

Geraldine Brooks