Quotes About Strength

No, she reminded herself, her childhood hadn't defined her, or had anything to do with the real reason..

But sometimes, the curveballs end up smacking us in the chest and close to the heart, leaving bruises that never seem to heal.

because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did. That's what I see now, and that's what I've always seen when I look at you.

it dawned on me that love was the most powerful emotion of all, because it made you vulnerable to the possibility of losing everything that really mattered.

Aprendí algo acerca de mí misma: que después de una experiencia tan desagradable, podía sobrevivir y seguir adelante...

Presenciar un amor tan incondicional, tan puro ante tales adversidades...era algo tan bonito...

No necesito a nadie —susurró él con la voz rasgada.

Cierro los ojos y me convierto en un barco intrépido, osado e invencible en medio de un mar agitado, y ella es mi vela.

never forget that love is always stronger than fear. Love saved me, and I know it will save you, too.

Steve remembered clasping his hands together, amazed that they weren't shaking. If ever they should shake, he thought, it would be at a time like this. But they were as steady and still as a kitchen sink.

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand.

His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

Seeing as he wasn't very bright, I was pretty sure that he was going to be good at fighting.

I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it.

I didn't want people feeling sorry for me, you see. I wanted them to help, even if helping meant saying that they wouldn't help

Siempre el partido más débil se unirá a las fuerzas externas, y el otro no podrá resistir

Licenció el antiguo ejército y creó uno nuevo; dejó las amistades viejas y se hizo de otras; y así, rodeado por soldados y amigos adictos, pudo construir sobre tales cimientos cuanto edificio quiso; y lo que tanto le había costado adquirir, poco le costó conservar.

I don't belong to anyone ! I'm not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I'm a woman.

Nada é tão débil e instável quanto a fama da potência não assente na própria força

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hate is easy. love takes courage. x3

One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it