Quotes About Strength

Wendelin Van Draanen

I've decided this is all your fault, Ms. Leone. I've run away before, you know, but stowed away or jumped trains or broke into buildings, I just ran away and got caught. But I think all that stuff you told us about the Underground Railroad got lodged in my subconscious, and somewhere inside it gave me the strength or courage or insanity to really get away. So see? This is all your fault.

One by one by one by one. That's how I got through losing a leg. Minute by minute by minute by minute. Hour by hour by hour by hour. Day by day by day by day. That's how anybody makes it through anything

And of course I felt sorry for you, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He stops running. "Didn't you read what I wrote on your running leg? Does it say, I feel sorry for you? No! It says, You inspire me. I want to be around you because you inspire me! You're amazing. I think you're the most Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â I stop running, and I look at him. His

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, and your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. Your determination is all that's left. It forces your muscles to fire. Forces you to stay in the race. Forces you to survive the pain of this moment.

One by one by one by one. That's how I got through losing a leg. Minute by minute by minute by minute. Hour by hour by hour by hour. Day by day by day by day.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compared to the one in my heart.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen

No hay nada como una mujer de cabeza fuerte para hacerte feliz de estar vivo.

10:05 p.m. I don't want your SYMPATHY your PITY your BAND-AID on my MISERY I don't want your WELFARE your I CARE your SHE'S-NOT-LOOKING-NOW-LET'S-STARE Just give me a CHANCE a FAIR FIGHTING CHANCE

There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.

It's easy to find our better selves in the sunshine of prosperity. What we must remember is to not lose those selves during times of hardship.

To hold a mighty heart.

Wendelin Van Draanen

We've all got to go through enough to kill us.

To know that I was known by a new living being, who had not existed until she was made in my body by my desire and brought forth into the world by my pain and strength—that changed me. My heart, which seemed to have had only loss and grief in it before, now had joy in it also.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Reason, tradition, speculative conviction, dead orthodoxy, are a girdle of spider-webs. They give way at the first onset. Truth alone, as abiding in the mind in the form of divine knowledge, can give strength or confidence even in the ordinary conflicts of the Christian life, much more in any really "evil day.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.