Quotes About Strength

the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready.

Loving someone so deeply was dangerous. It made you too vulnerable.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Every person has a heart, but we're not always lucky enough to get a glimpse of it. And every heart, even the hardest, has a fragile spot. If you hit it there, it shatters.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering

I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I'm not defeated yet.

Anger and self-pity are useless emotions, so I push them away and speak calmly, even though my heart is breaking all over again.

Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person.

Who held his cries in until red swam behind his eyelids like bleeding stars.

People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness.

Because a trained mind is your strongest ally—and an untrained one your worst enemy.

This was something I had achieved by myself, without having to depend on anyone. No one could take it away. That's what I want for you, my Tara, my Bela. That's what it really means to be a fortunate lamp.

I guess that's when people call their mothers - when their world is falling apart.

At what point does forbearance cease to be a virtue and become a weakness?)

A wise person allows herself to be used when it suits her purpose. She pretends weakness, then waits for the right moment to take control.

So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.

Wait for a man to avenge your honour and you'll wait forever.

Sarojini admits he has a point; girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women, and surely Bimal does a good job of that. But deep in a hidden place inside her that is stubborn as a mudfish, Sarojini knows she is right, too. Being loved a little more than necessary arms a girl in a different way.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I took the garland for myself, determined to do on my own what no man dared do for me. Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

Yes, I've learned a few things along the way, though now that I'm neither man nor woman they can't do me any good. But here's one that may be of use to you: the power of a man is like a bull's charge, while the power of a woman moves aslant, like a serpent seeking its prey. Know the particular properties of your power. Unless you use it correctly, it won't get you what you want.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

This is the tragedy of Hindustan: our disunity. Our enemies have used it against us over and over.

My heart is filled with passion for the spices, my ears with the music of our dance together. My blood with our shared power. I need no pitiful mortal man to love. I believe this. Wholly.