Quotes About Strength

Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.

There's a witch under this hair.

To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free

[2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.

I still got the nasty in me.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

It is good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.

Turtles carry their homes on their backs." Running her finger over the tattoo, she tells him what her dad told her: "They're exposed and hidden at the same time. They're a symbol of strength and perseverance.

All of them fused together to give the tree its solid core. Maybe humans are like that, she thought. Maybe the moments that meant something to you and the people you've loved over the years are the rings. Maybe what you thought you'd lost is still there, inside of you, giving you strength.

Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then shakes his hands twice in the air and winks at me. Truly , there isn't much more she can do. Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery — our mere existence is punishment enough.

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit," Mamey

cuando dice que no pasa nada, lo que quiere decir es que sabe que puede sobrevivir con lo mínimo.

when she thought her heart might pulverize like a shell into sand, I will find a way to keep going, no matter what happens.

Test your limits. Learn what you can endure.

A trick to play in your mind when your troubled. You think of yourself as a tree, with all the rings inside. And every ring is someone you care about, or a place you've been. You carry them with you wherever you go.

We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope . . . For this light momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison . . .

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit,

I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.

People have maladies of all kinds, she says, and if they have any sense, they don't waste time whining about them. "We all have our burdens to bear," she says. "You know what yours is, now. That's good. You'll never be surprised by it.

tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable...

she knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.