Quotes About Strength

The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage. It will more likely derive from our uncompromising belief in the things we consider unimpeachable and idealized and beautiful. Because every strength is a weakness, if given enough time.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.

I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Nunca sabes cuan fuerte eres hasta que ser fuerte es la única elección que tienes. Y cuando esto sucede, eres intocable.

She'd lived through something the rest of them could never imagine. So much torture and horror that she didn't need to tell people about it. She'd never need drama or joy or pain ever again.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

And maybe men say they're glad not to give birth, all the pain and blood, but really that's just so much sour grapes. For sure, men can't do anything near as incredible. Upper body strength, abstract thought, phalluses—any advantages men appear to have are pretty token. You can't even hammer a nail with a phallus.

Stick and stones may break your bones and words can kill you too

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther your run, the more God wants you back.

The main thing I wor­ry about in pub­lic is maybe peo­ple can tell I'm a sur­vivor.

People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.

Take full advantage of the complete freedom books provide. To not take advantage of that freedom is to waste the one chief strength of the medium.