Quotes About Strength

God was a ruthless bitch.

It didn't matter whether someone came along anyway. I was in this alone. I

Inhabit the beauty that lives in your beastly body and strive to see the beauty in all the other beasts.

There are so many amazing things in this world... I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.

So much of being able to hike the PCT depended upon mind control: the stout decision to move forward, regardless.

I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but back to the person I used to be—strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good.

I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong.

Basking in the attention of the people who gathered around me, I didn't just feel like a backpacking expert. I felt like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen.

He pushed on, pillaging my pack, inquiring sternly each time before tossing another item I'd previously deemed necessary into the get-rid-of pile.

It was as if I'd finally come across a mountian lion and I'd remembered, against all instinct, not to run. Not to incite him with my fast motions or antagonize him with my anger or arouse him with my fear.

If I believed in God, I'd see evidence of his existence in that. In your darkest hour you were held afloat by the human love that was given to you when you most needed it. That would have been true regardless of the outcome of Emma's surgery. It would have been the grace that carried you through even if things had not gone as well as they did, much as we hate to ponder that.

My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours.

Fear begets fear. Power begets power.

No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you.

Desperation is unsustainable.

Testing yourself means relinquishing the things you believe have so far kept you safe or comfortable

I told her it would likely go on and shed have to survive it. That she'd have to find a way within herself to not only escape the shit, but to transcend it, and if she wasn't able to do that, then her whole life would be shit, forever and ever and ever.

I had to do something hard so I could know my strength. I had to do something scary so I could find my courage. I had to do something alone so I could see who I was.

In this sense, she offers what we wish every mother would: enough compassion to make us feel safe within our broken need, and enough wisdom to hold on to hope.

WRITE LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER

The unifying theme is being a warrior and a motherfucker

Cheryl Strayed

I am not afraid

Never give in,