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Quotes About Strength

even though your broken heart may never heal bless those who help hold the pieces together
~ Terri Guillemets
Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness.
~ J. Parker
But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
They loved with a love that was frayed around the edges but strong at the seams.
~ Terri Guillemets
You are going to be fine — you come from a long line of lunatics.
~ Internet meme
They're not hot flashes — they're power surges.
~ Bumper sticker, c. 1992
When thou art feeble, old, and grey, My healthy arm shall be thy stay, And I will soothe thy pains away, My Mother.
~ Ann Taylor (1782–1866)
Mothers are the vital warmth of sun — and they are the comforting coolness of shade.
~ Terri Guillemets
O sweet and healing medicine of troubles.
~ Horace
Music is said to be the rejoicing of the heart: Music comforteth the mind, and feareth the enemy.
~ John Florio
It is a sovereign remedy against Despair and Melancholy.
~ Robert Burton
Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.
~ Portuguese Proverb
Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.
~ Terri Guillemets
And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.
~ William Shakespeare
Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!
~ Donna Wilk Cardillo, R.N.
In your patience possess ye your souls.
~ Bible, Luke 21:19
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
~ Author Unknown
One may go a long way after one is tired.
~ French proverb
The heroine stumbled, but each time she picked herself up was another victory.
~ Terri Guillemets
Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the shock Of the wild world as a rock; But my spirit, propt with power, Make as simple as a flower. Let the dry heart fill its cup, Like a poppy looking up; Let life lightly wear her crown, Like a poppy looking down, When its heart is filled with dew, And its life begins anew...
~ Edwin Markham, "A Prayer"
Pray so hard that your words glow in the dark.
~ Terri Guillemets
The man who gets on his knees has not learned the right use of his legs.
~ Lemuel K. Washburn
Prayer lights our souls through dark times.
~ Terri Guillemets
Pray on the shadowy hillsides of hardship and on the sunny highlands of happiness.
~ Terri Guillemets