Quotes About Strength

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.

Tell ya what I'm gonna do, see. I'm not going to hope. Now, you don't either. Don't hope your life will get better. Just make it so. Don't hope you are able to handle this baby. Just do it. Just be glad, just move fast, just do what you need to do. But for god's sake, don't hope. Just be...Just be...

Oh, Ben," she whispers. "I've sunk as low as I can get. All the sudden. Today," and then says, more loudly and firmly, "You

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

Power is a tricky thing, mija. It can lift you up high on its wings and up into the sky where you feel invincible. But sometimes you forget the bigger thing that makes you fly. Without God, without love, you fall. You stop being grateful and humble, and you fall." pg. 230

Maybe that's what I need to do now, muster up everything that was ever vivísima about me and somehow find a way to stand tall.

Yo lo que quiero, me dije, es un hombre como Dios manda; bondadoso como un perro y presente como una montaña

Sean asked her if she was an Olympic weight lifter. "No," she said. "I am Polish.

Thinking that you can't protect the ones you love, you have to hope they're smart enough to save themselves, And hope, well. Who had any of that to spare?

And though Finn was tall, his arms and legs ropey with farm muscle, the Rudes were wider and stronger, and there were about four and a half too many of them.

You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me all about it. And then I will crow to the neighbors and make them all jealous.

Girls were punished so hard for their love, so hard, hard enough to break them.

Inflexible things break, sometimes spectacularly, when stressed.

Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.

having once committed the sin of despair she was determined to believe in the blessing of life ('And when God walks beside you/You are not afraid . . .').

You cannot rescue somebody, little bird. You can help them. But they must rescue themselves.

when you focus on what you do best, on what brings you the most satisfaction, there is plenty of space for everything. You can build a big career. You can build a big family. And you can meander along a Maryland creek on a weekday morning because the day is too wild and beautiful to stay inside.

Finalmente, el autocontrol te permite relajarte porque elimina el estrés y te da la capacidad de conservar fuerza de voluntad para enfrentar los desafíos importantes.

la fuerza de voluntad, al igual que los músculos, se fatiga si se usa demasiado.

So sometimes what takes you down can be used to raise you up again.

won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

And while we're talking about being used and abused, you should know that there are some things you tell and some things you handle by yourself, the best you can.

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.